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历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典/1
1．万物已近极致/3
Everything is at its acme
2．品性与智慧/3
Character and intellect
3．做事时常留有悬念/3
Keep matters for a time in suspense
4．有识亦应有胆/5
Knowledge and courage
5．让别人依赖你/5
Create a feeling of dependence
6．至善至美的境界/7
A man at his highest point
7．不要比上司更耀眼/9
Avoid victories over superiors
8．不被激情左右/11
To be without passions
9．避免土生土长的缺陷/11
Avoid the faults of your nation
10．财富与名望/13
Fortune and fame
11．择师而交/13
Cultivate those who can teach you
12．自然和人工：原料与加工/15
Nature and art
13．有时三思而行，有时立下决断/15
Act sometimes on second thoughts,
sometimes on first impulse
14．事物本身及做事的方法/19
The thing itself and the way it is done
15．广纳贤人/19
Keep ministering spirits
16．学识和善心/21
Knowledge and good intentions
17．变换你的行为模式/21
Vary the mode of action
18．能力和努力/23
Application and ability
19．事前不要让人期望过高/25
Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
20．生逢其时的人/27
A man of the age
21．幸运之道/27
The art of being lucky
22．学以致用/29
A man of knowledge to the point
23．没有瑕疵/29
Be spotless
24．控制自己的幻想/31
Keep the imagination under control
25．善于领会弦外之音/31
Know how to take a hint
26．揪出他人的把柄/33
Find out each man’s thumbscrew
27．求精深重于求广博/33
Prize intensity more than extent
28．超凡脱俗/35
Common in nothing
29．刚直的人/35
A man of rectitude
30．不做毁誉之事/37
Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
31．学会趋利避害/39
Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
32．因善行而闻名/39
Have the reputation of being gracious
33．知道如何逃避/41
Know how to withdraw
34．了解自己的最强项/41
Know your strongest point
35．遇事斟酌，遇要事则更要斟酌/43
Think over things, most over the most important
36．进退之际，了解时运/45
In acting or refraining, weigh your luck
37．准备一些讥诮话，并善加利用/45
Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them
38．急流勇退/47
Leave your luck while winning
39．了解事物成熟的时机，并善加利用/49
Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them
40．获得人们的好感/49
Gain the goodwill of people
41．切勿言过其实/51
Never exaggerate
42．天生为王/53
Born to wommand
43．心随精英，口随大众/53
Think with the few and speak with the many
44．英雄相惜/55
Sympathy with great minds
45．狡猾可以运用，但不能滥用/57
Use, but do not abuse, cunning
46．控制你的反感情绪/57
Master your antipathies
47．避免“为荣誉而决斗”/59
Avoid “affairs of honour”
48．做一个有深度的人至关重要/59
So much depends on being a person of depth
49．明察善断/61
Observation and judgment
50．不失自尊/61
Never lose self-respect
51．选择有道/63
Know how to choose well
52．从不慌乱/63
Never be put out
53．聪明且勤奋/65
Be diligent and intelligent
54．懂得展示你的勇气/65
Know how to show your teeth
55．善于等待/67
Wait
56．随机应变/67
Have presence of mind
57．慢且稳/69
Be slow and Sure
58．恰当展现自己/69
Adapt yourself to your company
59．要有完美的收场/71
Finish off well
60．判断准确/71
A sound judgment
61．卓越之处求卓越/73
To excel in what is excellent
62．善其事必先利其器/73
Use good instruments
63．抢先为上/75
To be the first of the kind is an excellence
64．远离烦恼/77
Avoid worry
65．培养高雅的品味/77
Elevated taste
66．使结局完美/79
See that things end well
67．选择能够获得殊荣的行业/81
Choose an occupation that wins distinction
68．点拨其心智，胜于助其回忆/81
It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
69．不要冲动行事/83
Do not give way to every common impulse
70．学会拒绝/85
Know how to refuse
71．不要左右摇摆/87
Do not vacillate
72．要当机立断/87
Be resolute
73．安然退避/89
Utilize slips
74．与人为善/89
Do not be unsociable
75．选择一位英雄作为偶像/91
Choose a heroic ideal
76．不要总开玩笑/93
Do not always be jesting
77．做人须八面玲珑/93
Be all things to all men
78．做事有道/95
The art of undertaking things
79．轻松快活的个性/95
A genial disposition
80．获取信息要谨慎/97
Take care to get information
81．勇于推陈出新/97
Renew your brilliance
82．凡事无论好与坏，不要走极端/99
Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill
83．容许自己有无伤大雅之过/99
Allow yourself some venial fault
84．善用对手/101
Make use of your enemies
85．不做无所不知之人/103
Do not be a wild card
86．预防流言蜚语/103
Prevent scandal
87．文明和高雅/105
Culture and elegance
88．举止高贵大方/107
Let your behaviour be fine and noble
89．了解自己/107
Know yourself
90．长寿的秘密/109
The secret of long life
91．对做某事审慎与否若有疑虑，就别着手去做/109
Never set to work at anything if you have
any doubts of its prudence
92．要有超凡的智慧/111
Transcendent wisdom
93．多才多艺/111
Versatility
94．让你的才能高深莫测/113
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
95．让人们保持对你的期望/113
Keep expectation alive
96．至高无上的辨别力/113
The highest discretion
97．赢得并维护美名/115
Obtain and preserve a reputation
98．掩饰你的意图/115
Write your intentions in cypher
99．本质与表象/117
Reality and appearance
100．做一个清醒的人，智慧的信徒，贤能的臣子/117
Be a man without illusions,
a wise christian, a philosophic courtier
101．世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人，其实他们都是蠢人/119
One half of the world laughs at the other,
and fools are they all
102．天降大福需有大心胸消受/119
Be able to stomach big slices of luck
103．让每人都保有尊严/121
Let each keep up his dignity
104．明确不同工作的要求/123
Know the demands of different occupations
105．勿遭人烦/123
Don’t be a bore
106．勿炫耀你的地位/125
Do not parade your position
107．勿自鸣得意/127
Show no self-satisfaction
108．与人同行是成为伟人的捷径/129
The path to greatness is along with others
109．不要吹毛求疵/129
Be not censorious
110．不要坐以待毙/131
Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
111．赢得朋友/131
Have friends
112．博取他人的好感/133
Gain good-will
113．未雨绸缪/135
In prosperity prepare for adversity
114．避免与人相争/135
Never compete
115．习惯熟人的缺点/137
Get used to the failings of your familiars
116．只和可敬之人交往/137
Only act with honourable men
117．决不谈论自己/139
Never talk about yourself
118．要赢得谦恭有礼的名声/139
Acquire the reputation of courtesy
119．避免惹人厌烦/141
Avoid becoming disliked
120．生活讲求实际/143
Live practically
121．不要小题大做/145
Do not make a business of what is no business
122．言行应有威信/145
Distinction in speech and action
123．避免矫揉造作/147
Avoid affectation
124．要被他人想念/147
Get yourself missed
125．不要成为污点记录簿/149
Do not be a black list
126．愚蠢并非做了蠢事，而在于做后不知掩饰/151
Folly consists not in
committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed
127．凡是从容优雅/151
Grace in everything
128．要有高远的志向/153
Highmindedness
129．从不抱怨/153
Never complain
130．要干，且要让人看见/155
Do and be seen doing
131．慷慨大度/157
Nobility of feeling
132．修正自己的判断/157
Revise your judgments
133．宁可同醉，而不独醒/159
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
134．加倍储存你的资源/159
Double your resources
135．不要滋长唱反调的习气/161
Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
136．抓住事情关键/163
Post yourself in the centre of things
137．圣人自足/163
The sage should be self-sufficing
138．任其自然的艺术/165
The art of letting things alone
139．冷静面对倒霉的日子/165
Recognize unlucky days
140．一眼看到事物好的一面/167
Find the good in a thing at once
141．不要只倾听自己的声音/169
Do not listen to yourself
142．当对手先站在正确的一方时,你不能固执地站在错误的一方/171
Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
143．别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术/173
Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
144．开始于他人，受用于自己/173
Begin with another’s to end with your own
145．藏好你受伤的手指/175
Do not show your wounded finger
146．透过现象看本质/177
Look into the interior of things
147．采纳他人的建议/177
Do not be inaccessible
148．掌握谈话的艺术/179
Have the art of conversation
149．懂得推罪于人/181
Know how to put off ills on others
150．推销得法/181
Know how to get your price for things
151．高瞻远瞩/183
Think beforehand
152．不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍/185
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
153．不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺/185
Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
154．不轻易相信，也不轻易喜欢/187
Do not believe, or like, lightly
155．掌控激情的艺术/189
The art of mastering your passions
156．选择你的朋友/189
Select your friends
157．识人别出错/191
Do not make mistakes about character
158．善用朋友/193
Make use of your friends
159．忍受愚蠢/195
Put up with fools
160．说话要谨慎/195
Be careful in speaking
161．认清自身喜爱的缺点/197
Know your pet faults
162．如何战胜对手和诽谤者/197
How to triumph over rivals and detractors
163．决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸/199
Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,
involve yourself in his fate
164．投石问路/201
Throw straws in the air
165．斗争也要讲体面/201
Wage war honourably
166．分辨善言者与善行者/203
Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
167．知道怎样依靠自己/203
Know how to take your own part
168．不要沦为愚蠢的怪物/205
Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
169．多加小心，避免万一失手胜过百发百中/207
Be more careful not to miss once
than to hit a hundred times
170．凡事有所保留/207
In all things keep something in reserve
171．不要滥用人情/209
Do not waste influence
172．决不与一无所有者争斗/209
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
173．与人相交，不要像玻璃般易碎，朋友间尤其如此/211
Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
174．不要活在匆忙中/213
Do not live in a hurry
175．做个实在的人/213
A solid man
176．自知或从知者处知/215
Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge
177．避免与人太亲近/217
Avoid familiarities in intercourse
178．信赖你的内心/217
Trust your heart
179．缄默是才能的标志/219
Reticence is the seal of capacity
180．决不被敌人误导/221
Never be guided by what your enemy has done
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295．若未奏效，不要邀功/359
Do not affect what you have not effected
296．高贵的品质/361
Noble qualities
297．行动总如处于监视中/361
Always act as if your acts were seen
298．可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363
Three things go to a prodigy
299．让人有饥饿感/363
Leave off hungry
300．总而言之，做一位圣徒/365
In one word, be a saint
1．万物已近极致/3
Everything is at its acme
2．品性与智慧/3
Character and intellect
3．做事时常留有悬念/3
Keep matters for a time in suspense
4．有识亦应有胆/5
Knowledge and courage
5．让别人依赖你/5
Create a feeling of dependence
6．至善至美的境界/7
A man at his highest point
7．不要比上司更耀眼/9
Avoid victories over superiors
8．不被激情左右/11
To be without passions
9．避免土生土长的缺陷/11
Avoid the faults of your nation
10．财富与名望/13
Fortune and fame
11．择师而交/13
Cultivate those who can teach you
12．自然和人工：原料与加工/15
Nature and art
13．有时三思而行，有时立下决断/15
Act sometimes on second thoughts,
sometimes on first impulse
14．事物本身及做事的方法/19
The thing itself and the way it is done
15．广纳贤人/19
Keep ministering spirits
16．学识和善心/21
Knowledge and good intentions
17．变换你的行为模式/21
Vary the mode of action
18．能力和努力/23
Application and ability
19．事前不要让人期望过高/25
Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
20．生逢其时的人/27
A man of the age
21．幸运之道/27
The art of being lucky
22．学以致用/29
A man of knowledge to the point
23．没有瑕疵/29
Be spotless
24．控制自己的幻想/31
Keep the imagination under control
25．善于领会弦外之音/31
Know how to take a hint
26．揪出他人的把柄/33
Find out each man’s thumbscrew
27．求精深重于求广博/33
Prize intensity more than extent
28．超凡脱俗/35
Common in nothing
29．刚直的人/35
A man of rectitude
30．不做毁誉之事/37
Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
31．学会趋利避害/39
Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
32．因善行而闻名/39
Have the reputation of being gracious
33．知道如何逃避/41
Know how to withdraw
34．了解自己的最强项/41
Know your strongest point
35．遇事斟酌，遇要事则更要斟酌/43
Think over things, most over the most important
36．进退之际，了解时运/45
In acting or refraining, weigh your luck
37．准备一些讥诮话，并善加利用/45
Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them
38．急流勇退/47
Leave your luck while winning
39．了解事物成熟的时机，并善加利用/49
Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them
40．获得人们的好感/49
Gain the goodwill of people
41．切勿言过其实/51
Never exaggerate
42．天生为王/53
Born to wommand
43．心随精英，口随大众/53
Think with the few and speak with the many
44．英雄相惜/55
Sympathy with great minds
45．狡猾可以运用，但不能滥用/57
Use, but do not abuse, cunning
46．控制你的反感情绪/57
Master your antipathies
47．避免“为荣誉而决斗”/59
Avoid “affairs of honour”
48．做一个有深度的人至关重要/59
So much depends on being a person of depth
49．明察善断/61
Observation and judgment
50．不失自尊/61
Never lose self-respect
51．选择有道/63
Know how to choose well
52．从不慌乱/63
Never be put out
53．聪明且勤奋/65
Be diligent and intelligent
54．懂得展示你的勇气/65
Know how to show your teeth
55．善于等待/67
Wait
56．随机应变/67
Have presence of mind
57．慢且稳/69
Be slow and Sure
58．恰当展现自己/69
Adapt yourself to your company
59．要有完美的收场/71
Finish off well
60．判断准确/71
A sound judgment
61．卓越之处求卓越/73
To excel in what is excellent
62．善其事必先利其器/73
Use good instruments
63．抢先为上/75
To be the first of the kind is an excellence
64．远离烦恼/77
Avoid worry
65．培养高雅的品味/77
Elevated taste
66．使结局完美/79
See that things end well
67．选择能够获得殊荣的行业/81
Choose an occupation that wins distinction
68．点拨其心智，胜于助其回忆/81
It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
69．不要冲动行事/83
Do not give way to every common impulse
70．学会拒绝/85
Know how to refuse
71．不要左右摇摆/87
Do not vacillate
72．要当机立断/87
Be resolute
73．安然退避/89
Utilize slips
74．与人为善/89
Do not be unsociable
75．选择一位英雄作为偶像/91
Choose a heroic ideal
76．不要总开玩笑/93
Do not always be jesting
77．做人须八面玲珑/93
Be all things to all men
78．做事有道/95
The art of undertaking things
79．轻松快活的个性/95
A genial disposition
80．获取信息要谨慎/97
Take care to get information
81．勇于推陈出新/97
Renew your brilliance
82．凡事无论好与坏，不要走极端/99
Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill
83．容许自己有无伤大雅之过/99
Allow yourself some venial fault
84．善用对手/101
Make use of your enemies
85．不做无所不知之人/103
Do not be a wild card
86．预防流言蜚语/103
Prevent scandal
87．文明和高雅/105
Culture and elegance
88．举止高贵大方/107
Let your behaviour be fine and noble
89．了解自己/107
Know yourself
90．长寿的秘密/109
The secret of long life
91．对做某事审慎与否若有疑虑，就别着手去做/109
Never set to work at anything if you have
any doubts of its prudence
92．要有超凡的智慧/111
Transcendent wisdom
93．多才多艺/111
Versatility
94．让你的才能高深莫测/113
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
95．让人们保持对你的期望/113
Keep expectation alive
96．至高无上的辨别力/113
The highest discretion
97．赢得并维护美名/115
Obtain and preserve a reputation
98．掩饰你的意图/115
Write your intentions in cypher
99．本质与表象/117
Reality and appearance
100．做一个清醒的人，智慧的信徒，贤能的臣子/117
Be a man without illusions,
a wise christian, a philosophic courtier
101．世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人，其实他们都是蠢人/119
One half of the world laughs at the other,
and fools are they all
102．天降大福需有大心胸消受/119
Be able to stomach big slices of luck
103．让每人都保有尊严/121
Let each keep up his dignity
104．明确不同工作的要求/123
Know the demands of different occupations
105．勿遭人烦/123
Don’t be a bore
106．勿炫耀你的地位/125
Do not parade your position
107．勿自鸣得意/127
Show no self-satisfaction
108．与人同行是成为伟人的捷径/129
The path to greatness is along with others
109．不要吹毛求疵/129
Be not censorious
110．不要坐以待毙/131
Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
111．赢得朋友/131
Have friends
112．博取他人的好感/133
Gain good-will
113．未雨绸缪/135
In prosperity prepare for adversity
114．避免与人相争/135
Never compete
115．习惯熟人的缺点/137
Get used to the failings of your familiars
116．只和可敬之人交往/137
Only act with honourable men
117．决不谈论自己/139
Never talk about yourself
118．要赢得谦恭有礼的名声/139
Acquire the reputation of courtesy
119．避免惹人厌烦/141
Avoid becoming disliked
120．生活讲求实际/143
Live practically
121．不要小题大做/145
Do not make a business of what is no business
122．言行应有威信/145
Distinction in speech and action
123．避免矫揉造作/147
Avoid affectation
124．要被他人想念/147
Get yourself missed
125．不要成为污点记录簿/149
Do not be a black list
126．愚蠢并非做了蠢事，而在于做后不知掩饰/151
Folly consists not in
committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed
127．凡是从容优雅/151
Grace in everything
128．要有高远的志向/153
Highmindedness
129．从不抱怨/153
Never complain
130．要干，且要让人看见/155
Do and be seen doing
131．慷慨大度/157
Nobility of feeling
132．修正自己的判断/157
Revise your judgments
133．宁可同醉，而不独醒/159
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
134．加倍储存你的资源/159
Double your resources
135．不要滋长唱反调的习气/161
Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
136．抓住事情关键/163
Post yourself in the centre of things
137．圣人自足/163
The sage should be self-sufficing
138．任其自然的艺术/165
The art of letting things alone
139．冷静面对倒霉的日子/165
Recognize unlucky days
140．一眼看到事物好的一面/167
Find the good in a thing at once
141．不要只倾听自己的声音/169
Do not listen to yourself
142．当对手先站在正确的一方时,你不能固执地站在错误的一方/171
Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
143．别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术/173
Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
144．开始于他人，受用于自己/173
Begin with another’s to end with your own
145．藏好你受伤的手指/175
Do not show your wounded finger
146．透过现象看本质/177
Look into the interior of things
147．采纳他人的建议/177
Do not be inaccessible
148．掌握谈话的艺术/179
Have the art of conversation
149．懂得推罪于人/181
Know how to put off ills on others
150．推销得法/181
Know how to get your price for things
151．高瞻远瞩/183
Think beforehand
152．不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍/185
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
153．不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺/185
Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
154．不轻易相信，也不轻易喜欢/187
Do not believe, or like, lightly
155．掌控激情的艺术/189
The art of mastering your passions
156．选择你的朋友/189
Select your friends
157．识人别出错/191
Do not make mistakes about character
158．善用朋友/193
Make use of your friends
159．忍受愚蠢/195
Put up with fools
160．说话要谨慎/195
Be careful in speaking
161．认清自身喜爱的缺点/197
Know your pet faults
162．如何战胜对手和诽谤者/197
How to triumph over rivals and detractors
163．决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸/199
Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,
involve yourself in his fate
164．投石问路/201
Throw straws in the air
165．斗争也要讲体面/201
Wage war honourably
166．分辨善言者与善行者/203
Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
167．知道怎样依靠自己/203
Know how to take your own part
168．不要沦为愚蠢的怪物/205
Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
169．多加小心，避免万一失手胜过百发百中/207
Be more careful not to miss once
than to hit a hundred times
170．凡事有所保留/207
In all things keep something in reserve
171．不要滥用人情/209
Do not waste influence
172．决不与一无所有者争斗/209
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
173．与人相交，不要像玻璃般易碎，朋友间尤其如此/211
Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
174．不要活在匆忙中/213
Do not live in a hurry
175．做个实在的人/213
A solid man
176．自知或从知者处知/215
Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge
177．避免与人太亲近/217
Avoid familiarities in intercourse
178．信赖你的内心/217
Trust your heart
179．缄默是才能的标志/219
Reticence is the seal of capacity
180．决不被敌人误导/221
Never be guided by what your enemy has done
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295．若未奏效，不要邀功/359
Do not affect what you have not effected
296．高贵的品质/361
Noble qualities
297．行动总如处于监视中/361
Always act as if your acts were seen
298．可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363
Three things go to a prodigy
299．让人有饥饿感/363
Leave off hungry
300．总而言之，做一位圣徒/365
In one word, be a saint
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