日—1860年9月21日) 1.All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident. 任何真理都经过三个阶段:第一,它受人奚落;第二,它遭到猛烈的反对;第三,它被当作自明的东西被接受了。 2.Compassion is the basis of all morality. 同情是一切道德的基础。 3.Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision
for the limits of the world. 每个人都把自己眼界的局限当成世界的局限。 4.If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would
be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure
it. 如果我们都对自己不这么感兴趣,生活将如此乏味,我们没有一个人能够忍受这生活。 5.Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption.
It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of
thought. 在各种形式的干扰中,噪音最是鲁莽。它不仅仅是个干扰,它还中断了思想。 6.Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a
target no one else can see. 有才能的人击中一个靶子,没人能击中;天才击中一个靶子,没人能看见。 7.The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed
stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. 任何人能够无动于衷地忍受的噪音的量,与他的心智能力成反比。 8.The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is
then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the
things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and
forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are
never forgotten. 青年人的记忆力应该得到特别的重用,因为那时的记忆最强,也最持久。但在挑选应该被记住的东西的时候,必得深思熟虑,也得有先见之明;年轻时学得的课程,一生难忘。 9.We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like
other people. 我们假造自己的四分之三,以便和别人相似。 10.Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something
that must not be lost. 名声这东西必得争取方可得到;荣誉这东西万万不可丢失。 11.The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade
party when the masks are dropped. 行将就木的年月,宛如一场化妆舞会好戏收场了,其时面具都摘了下来。 12.If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch
the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from
him. 如果你想知道你对某人真正的看法,就注意他的第一印象对你产生的效果。 13.He who does not enjoy solitude will not love
freedom. 人不好孤独,不会爱自由。 14.A man can be himself only so long as he is
alone. 人只在独处的时候,方为自我。 15.A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some
particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of
it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the
more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it
comes. 人期望某种特别的满足时的那种愉快,是来自那个满足的快乐的一部分,是提前享用了。但是,这快乐后来却打了折扣,因为当那满足来临的时候,越是期望它,就越是不以之为乐。 16.A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting
things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his
mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's
thoughts and aspirations. 一般而言,和嘴相比,一个人的脸说得更多,因为脸把他的嘴会说的任何事情都提纲携领地做了交代,在那个提纲中的是这个人的思想和热望的点点滴滴。 17.A person should never try to purchase pleasure at the cost
of pain, or even at the risk of incurring it. 一个人永远也不要以痛苦为代价,甚至以导致痛苦为代价,去购买快乐。 18.Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with
other people. 几乎我们的全部愁苦,都来自和别人的拉拉扯扯。 19.As the biggest library, if it is in disorder, is not as
useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a
vast amount of knowledge, but it will be of far less value to you
than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for
yourself. 正如最大的图书馆,如果它散乱不堪,它就不如一个小而有序的图书馆有用处,因此,你或许积累了大量知识,但这些知识远不如那些经过你自己思考过的少量的知识有价值。 20.Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal
cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! 人无思可想,就打牌,试图互相赢对方的钱。一群傻瓜! 21.Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't
expect an angel to look out. 书籍一如镜子。如果一头驴往里瞧,你就别指望有一个天使从镜子里往外看。 22.Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy
the time to read them. 买书是一件好事,只是也得买来时间读那些书才是。 23.Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a
little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to
rest and sleep a little dearth. 每一天都是一个小小的生命过程;每一次醒来都是一个小小的诞生;每一个清新的早晨都是一段小小的青春;每一次休息和睡眠都是一次小小的死亡。 24.Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming
together again a foretaste of the resurrection. 每一次分别都让我们预先尝到了死亡的的滋味;每一次重聚都使我们预先尝到了复活的滋味。 25.Everybody's friend is nobody's. 大家的朋友,不是任何人的朋友。 26.Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to
fortune. 朋友和熟人,是通往好运的最可靠的护照。 27.Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness;
everything else is just a promissory note. 单是快乐的天性,就因为那是快乐,是幸福的现金;其余的一切,期票而已。 28.Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some
lofty solitude. 伟人就象鹰隼,在孤高之处筑巢。 29.If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to
believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more
vigorously, and is unmasked. 如果我们怀疑一个人撒谎,那我们就应该假装相信他的话;因为他接着就变得胆大包天、信誓旦旦,不遗余力地说更多的谎话,而且连面具也不要戴了。 30.In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In
work, a great head. 在行动中,一颗伟大的心是主要的资质。在工作中,一颗伟大的头脑才是。 31.In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to
halve one's rights and double one's duties. 在我们这块儿讲一夫一妻的地方,结婚意味着把你的权力除以二,把你的义务乘以二。 32.In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain
the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for
brief periods. 在思想界,荒诞和悖谬一直是世界上的主人,这主人只是在短暂的时候不滥施淫威。 33.It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid
pain. 牺牲快乐以避免痛苦,显然是合算的。 34.It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what
they are. 一个人是怎么个人,但看他怎么处理琐事。 35.Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they
begin to bark. 记者象是一群狗,但有风吹草动,就开始吠个不停。 36.Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no
other object than wanting to do so. 让别人痛苦,仅仅是想这么做,再无其他目的,人是唯一这么一种动物。 37.Money is like sea water. The more we drink, the thirstier
we become. 钱如海水,越是多喝,越是干渴。