译者序：历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典 1．Everything is at its acme 1．万物已近极致 2．Character and intellect 2．品性与智慧 3．Keep matters for a time in suspense 3．做事时常留有悬念 4．Knowledge and courage 4．有识亦应有胆 5．Create a feeling of dependence 5．让别人依赖你 6．A man at his highest point 6．至善至美的境界 7．Avoid victories over superiors 7．不要比上司更耀眼 8．To be without passions 8．不被激情左右 9．Avoid the faults of your nation 9．避免土生土长的缺陷 10．Fortune and fame
10．财富与名望 11．Cultivate those who can teach you 11．择师而交 12．Nature and art 12．自然和人工：原料与加工 13．Act sometimes on second thoughts, sometimes on first impulse 13．有时三思而行，有时立下决断 14．The thing itself and the way it is done 14．事物本身及做事的方法 15．Keep ministering spirits 15．广纳贤人 16．Knowledge and good intentions 16．学识和善心 17．Vary the mode of action 17．变换你的行为模式 18．Application and ability 18．努力和能力 19．Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering 19．事前不要让人期望过高 20．A man of the age 20．生逢其时的人 21．The art of being lucky 21．幸运之道 22．A man of knowledge to the point 22．学以致用 23．Be spotless 23．没有瑕疵 24．Keep the imagination under control 24．控制自己的幻想 25．Know how to take a hint 25．善于领会弦外之音 26．Find out each man’s thumbscrew 26．揪出他人的把柄 27．Prize intensity more than extent 27．求精深重于求广博 28．Common in nothing 28．超凡脱俗 29．A man of rectitude 29．刚直的人 30．Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute 30．不做毁誉之事 31．Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky 31．学会趋利避害 32．Have the reputation of being gracious 32．因善行而闻名 33．Know how to withdraw 33．知道如何逃避 34．Know your strongest point 34．了解自己的最强项 35．Think over things, most over the most important 35．遇事斟酌，遇要事则更要斟酌 36．In acting or refraining, weigh your luck 36．进退之际，了解时运 37．Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them 37．准备一些讥诮话，并善加利用 38．Leave your luck while winning 38．急流勇退 39．Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them 39．了解事物成熟的时机，并善加利用 40．Gain the goodwill of people 40．获得人们的好感 41．Never exaggerate 41．切勿言过其实 42．Born to command 42．天生为王 43．Think with the few and speak with the many 43．心随精英，口随大众 44．Sympathy with great minds 44．英雄相惜 45．Use, but do not abuse, cunning 45．狡猾可以运用，但不能滥用 46．Master your antipathies 46．控制你的反感情绪 47．Avoid “affairs of honour” 47．避免“为荣誉而决斗” 48．So much depends on being a person of depth 48．做一个有深度的人至关重要 49．Observation and judgment 49．明察善断 50．Never lose self-respect 50．不失自尊 51．Know how to choose well 51．选择有道 52．Never be put out 52．从不慌乱 53．Be diligent and intelligent 53．聪明且勤奋 54．Know how to show your teeth 54．懂得展示你的勇气 55．Wait 55．善于等待 56．Have presence of mind 56．随机应变 57．Be slow and Sure 57．慢且稳 58．Adapt yourself to your company 58．恰当展现自己 59．Finish off well 59．要有完美的收场 60．A sound judgment 60．判断准确 61．To excel in what is excellent 61．卓越之处求卓越 62．Use good instruments 62．善其事必先利其器 63．To be the first of the kind is an excellence 63．抢先为上 64．Avoid worry 64．远离烦恼 65．Elevated taste 65．培养高雅的品味 66．See that things end well 66．使结局完美 67．Choose an occupation that wins distinction 67．选择能够获得殊荣的行业 68．It is better to help with intelligence than with memory 68．点拨其心智，胜于助其回忆 69．Do not give way to every common impulse 69．不要冲动行事 70．Know how to refuse 70．学会拒绝 71．Do not vacillate 71．不要左右摇摆 72．Be resolute 72．要当机立断 73．Utilize slips 73．安然退避 74．Do not be unsociable 74．与人为善 75．Choose a heroic ideal 75．选择一位英雄作为偶像 76．Do not always be jesting 76．不要总开玩笑 77．Be all things to all men 77．做人须八面玲珑 78．The art of undertaking things 78．做事有道 79．A genial disposition 79．轻松快活的个性 80．Take care to get information 80．获取信息要谨慎 81．Renew your brilliance 81．勇于推陈出新 82．Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill 82．凡事无论好与坏，不要走极端 83．Allow yourself some venial fault 83．容许自己有无伤大雅之过 84．Make use of your enemies 84．善用对手 85．Do not be a wild card 85．不做无所不知之人 86．Prevent scandal 86．预防流言蜚语 87．Culture and elegance 87．文明和高雅 88．Let your behaviour be fine and noble 88．举止高贵大方 89．Know yourself 89．了解自己 90．The secret of long life 90．长寿的秘密 91．Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its prudence 91．对做某事审慎与否有疑虑，就别着手去做 92．Transcendent wisdom 92．要有超凡的智慧 93．Versatility 93．多才多艺 94．Keep the extent of your abilities unknown 94．让你的才能高深莫测 95．Keep expectation alive 95．让人们保持对你的期望 96．The highest discretion 96．至高无上的辨别力 97．Obtain and preserve a reputation 97．赢得并维护美名 98．Write your intentions in cypher 98．掩饰你的意图 99．Reality and appearance 99．本质与表象 100．Be a man without illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic courtier 100．做一个清醒的人，智慧的信徒，贤能的臣子 101．One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all 101．世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人，其实他们都是蠢人 102．Be able to stomach big slices of luck 102．天降大福需有大心胸消受 103．Let each keep up his dignity 103．让每人都保有尊严 104．Know the demands of different occupations 104．明确不同工作的要求 105．Don’t be a bore 105．勿遭人烦 106．Do not parade your position 106．勿炫耀你的地位 107．Show no self-satisfaction 107．勿自鸣得意 108．The path to greatness is along with others 108．与人同行是成为伟人的捷径 109．Be not censorious 109．不要吹毛求疵 110．Do not wait till you are a sinking sun 110．不要坐以待毙 111．Have friends 111．赢得朋友 112．Gain good-will 112．博取他人的好感 113．In prosperity prepare for adversity 113．未雨绸缪 114．Never compete 114．避免与人相争 115．Get used to the failings of your familiars 115．习惯熟人的缺点 116．Only act with honourable men 116．只和可敬之人交往 117．Never talk about yourself 117．决不谈论自己 118．Acquire the reputation of courtesy 118．要赢得谦恭有礼的名声 119．Avoid becoming disliked 119．避免惹人厌烦 120．Live practically 120．生活讲求实际 121．Do not make a business of what is no business 121．不要小题大做 122．Distinction in speech and action 122．言行应有威信 123．Avoid affectation 123．避免矫揉造作 124．Get yourself missed 124．要被他人想念 125．Do not be a black list 125．不要成为污点记录簿 126．Folly consists not in committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed 126．愚蠢并非做了蠢事，而在于做后不知掩饰 127．Grace in everything 127．凡事从容优雅 128．Highmindedness 128．要有高远的志向 129．Never complain 129．从不抱怨 130．Do and be seen doing 130．要干，且要让人看见 131．Nobility of feeling 131．慷慨大度 132．Revise your judgments 132．修正你的判断 133．Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone 133．宁可同醉，而不独醒 134．Double your resources 134．加倍储存你的资源 135．Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction 135．不要滋长唱反调的习气 136．Post yourself in the centre of things 136．抓住事情关键 137．The sage should be self-sufficing 137．圣人自足 138．The art of letting things alone 138．任其自然的艺术 139．Recognize unlucky days 139．冷静面对倒霉的日子 140．Find the good in a thing at once 140．一眼看到事物好的一面 141．Do not listen to yourself 141．不要只倾听自己的声音 142．Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one 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 143．Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite 143．别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术 144．Begin with another’s to end with your own 144．开始于他人，受用于自己 145．Do not show your wounded finger 145．藏好你受伤的手指 146．Look into the interior of things 146．透过现象看本质 147．Do not be inaccessible 147．采纳他人的建议 148．Have the art of conversation 148．掌握谈话的艺术 149．Know how to put off ills on others 149．懂得推罪于人 150．Know how to get your price for things 150．推销得法 151．Think beforehand 151．高瞻远瞩 152．Never have a companion who casts you in the shade 152．不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍 153．Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled 153．不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺 154．Do not believe, or like, lightly 154．不轻易相信，也不轻易喜欢 155．The art of mastering your passions 155．掌控激情的艺术 156．Select your friends 156．选择你的朋友 157．Do not make mistakes about character 157．识人别出错 158．Make use of your friends 158．善用朋友 159．Put up with fools 159．忍受愚蠢 160．Be careful in speaking 160．说话要谨慎 161．Know your pet faults 161．认清自身喜爱的缺点 162．How to triumph over rivals and detractors 162．如何战胜对手和诽谤者 163．Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate, involve yourself in his fate 163．决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸 164．Throw straws in the air 164．投石问路 165．Wage war honourably 165．斗争也要讲体面 166．Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds 166．分辨善言者与善行者 167．Know how to take your own part 167．知道怎样依靠自己 168．Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly 168．不要沦为愚蠢的怪物 169．Be more careful not to miss once than to hit a hundred times 169．多加小心，避免万一失手胜过百发百中 170．In all things keep something in reserve 170．凡事有所保留 171．Do not waste influence 171．不要滥用人情 172．Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose 172．决不与一无所有者争斗 173．Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship 173．与人相交，不要像玻璃般易碎，朋友间尤其如此 174．Do not live in a hurry 174．不要活在匆忙中 175．A solid man 175．做个实在的人 176．Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge 176．自知或从知者处知 177．Avoid familiarities in intercourse 177．避免与人太亲近 178．Trust your heart 178．信赖你的内心 179．Reticence is the seal of capacity 179．缄默是才能的标志 180．Never be guided by what your enemy has done 180．决不被敌人误导 181．The truth, but not the whole truth 181．说真话，但不要说出所有真话 182．A grain of boldness in everything 182．凡事都要勇敢 183．Do not hold your views too firmly 183．不要固执己见 184．Do not be ceremonious 184．不要过分拘礼 185．Never stake your credit on a single cast 185．切莫孤注一掷赌名声 186．Recognize faults, however high placed 186．认识缺点，不管其地位有多高 187．Do pleasant things yourself, unpleasant things through others 187．令人愉快之事，自己做；令人不快之事，让他人代劳 188．Be the bearer of praise 188．成为赞美之人 189．Utilize another’s wants 189．利用他人的欲望 190．Find consolation in all things 190．在万物中寻觅慰藉 191．Do not take payment in politeness 191．慎防巧言令色 192．Peaceful life, a long life 192．心境平和则长寿 193．Watch him that begins with another’s to end with his own 193．防备那些利用他人达到自己目的的人 194．Have reasonable views of yourself and of your affairs 194．理性看待自己和自己的事 195．Know how to appreciate 195．学会欣赏别人 196．Know your ruling star 196．知道你的幸运星 197．Do not carry fools on your back 197．不要为蠢人所累 198．Know how to transplant yourself 198．懂得易地而处 199．To find a proper place by merit, not by presumption 199．获得自己合适的位置，凭德行而非逾越 200．Leave something to wish for 200．把一些愿望留到以后去满足 201．They are all fools who seem so besides half the rest 201．看上去愚蠢的人都是笨蛋，看上去聪明的人也有一半是笨蛋 202．Words and deeds make the perfect man 202．言语和行为共同打造完美之人 203．Know the great men of your age 203．认识你这个时代的伟人 204．Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy 204．举轻若重，且举重若轻 205．Know how to play the card of contempt 205．懂得漠视的技巧 206．Know that there are vulgar people everywhere 206．要明白平庸者无处不在 207．Be moderate 207．学会控制自己 208．Do not die of the fools’ disease 208．不要死于愚蠢 209．Keep yourself free from common follies 209．超然于世俗的愚蠢 210．Know how to play the card of truth 210．懂得怎样对待真相 211．In heaven all is bliss 211．天堂中一切是福，地狱中所有为苦 212．Keep to yourself the final touches of your art 212．懂得保留绝招的艺术 213．Know how to contradict 213．懂得如何反驳 214．Do not turn one blunder into two 214．不要把一个错误变成两个错误 215．Watch him that acts on second thoughts 215．提防那些掩饰自己意图的人 216．Be expressive 216．清楚地表达自己 217．Neither love nor hate forever 217．没有永远的爱，也没有永远的恨 218．Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge 218．行动不可出自固执，而应源于了解 219．Do not pass for a hypocrite 219．不要被看成伪君子 220．If you cannot clothe yourself in lionskin use foxpelt 220．不能披狮皮，那就披狐皮 221．Do not seize occasions to embarrass yourself or others 221．不要动辄使自己和他人感到尴尬 222．Reserve is proof of prudence 222．缄默是谨慎的表现 223．Be not eccentric 223．不要因做作或粗心而显得古怪 224．Never take things against the grain 224．不看事物的反面，不管事情怎样出现 225．Know your chief fault 225．知道你最大的缺点 226．Take care to be obliging 226．乐于帮助他人 227．Do not be the slave of first impressions 227．不要成为第一印象的奴隶 228．Do not be a scandal-monger 228．不要传播丑闻 229．Plan out your life wisely 229．合理规划自己的生活 230．Open your eyes betimes 230．早日睁开你的眼睛 231．Never let things be seen half-finished 231．不让他人看到未成之事 232．Have a touch of business sense 232．要接触实务 233．Let not the proffered morsel be distasteful 233．提供点食物，不要让人难咽 234．Never trust your honour to another, unless you have his in pledge 234．决不把名誉托付他人，除非他人以名誉作抵押 235．Know how to ask 235．求人有术 236．Make an obligation beforehand of what would have to be a reward afterwards 236．如果日后必求人且需答谢，还不如先施惠于人 237．Never share the secrets of your superiors 237．决不分享上司的秘密 238．Know what is wanting in yourself 238．知道自己缺少什么 239．Do not be captious 239．不要打破沙锅问到底 240．Make use of folly 240．学会装傻 241．Put up with raillery, but do not practise it 241．容忍别人嘲笑，但别嘲弄他人 242．Push advantages 242．做事要有始有终 243．Do not be too much of a dove 243．不要太过善良 244．Create a feeling of obligation 244．让别人对你感恩 245．Original and out-of-the-way views 245．要有独到的见解，这是才智过人的标志 246．Never offer satisfaction unless it is demanded 246．除非被要求，决不提供解释 247．Know a little more, live a little less 247．求知应多，生活应简 248．Do not go with the last speaker 248．不要认同最新的说法 249．Never begin life with what should end it 249．人生不要本末倒置 250．When to change the conversation 250．何时把他人的话反过来听 251．Use human means as if there were no divine ones, and divine as if there were no human ones 251．运用人道之时，就当神道不存。运用神道之时，只当人道不在 252．Neither belong entirely to yourself nor entirely to others 252．活着并非全为自己，也不是全为他人 253．Do not explain overmuch 253．不要解释太多 254．Never despise an evil, however small 254．勿因恶小而轻视它 255．Do good a little at a time, but often 255．行善不求大，但要常去做 256．Go armed, always 256．时刻做好防备 257．Never let matters come to a rupture 257．不要轻易断交 258．Find out someone to share your troubles 258．找人分担你的烦恼 259．Anticipate injuries and turn them into favours 259．预见伤害，并将之转化为庇护 260．We belong to none and none to us, entirely 260．我们不完全属于任何人，也没有任何人完全属于我们 261．Do not follow up a folly 261．不要执迷不悟 262．Be able to forget 262．能够忘记 263．Many things of taste one should not possess oneself 263．许多好东西你不应一味想占有 264．Have no careless days 264．每天都不能大意 265．Set those under you difficult task 265．为部下安排最难的任务 266．Do not become bad from sheer goodness 266．不要因为太善良而变糟 267．Silken words, sugared manners 267．言语温软，举止优雅 268．The wise does at once what the fool does at last 268．蠢人最后做的事，智者会马上做 269．Make use of the novelty of your position 269．利用你刚上任时人们的新鲜感 270．Do not condemn alone that which pleases all 270．众人喜欢之物，个人不要谴责 271．In every occupation if you know little stick to the safest path 271．不管从事任何工作，如果你所知不多，就走最安全的路线 272．Sell things by the tariff of courtesy 272．出售东西，附送殷勤 273．Comprehend their dispositions with whom you deal 273．了解你所交往的人的性情 274．Be attractive 274．要有吸引力 275．Join in the game as far as decency permits 275．参加游戏，但应得体 276．Know how to renew your character 276．知道如何完善自己的品性 277．Display yourself 277．展示你自己 278．Avoid notoriety in all things 278．避免抢眼而招致恶名 279．Do not contradict the contradictor 279．不要回应驳斥你的人 280．Be trustworthy 280．做个值得信赖的人 281．Find favour with men of good sense 281．赢得智者的好感 282．Make use of absence to make yourself more esteemed or valued 282．不现身，从而使自己更受敬重 283．拥有善于发现之天赋 284．Do not be importunate 284．不要多管闲事 285．Never die of another’s ill-luck 285．不要死于他人之厄运 286．Do not become responsible for all or for everyone 286．不要对所有的人和事都负责 287．Never act in a passion 287．冲动之时决不行动 288．Live for the moment 288．顺应时势 289．Nothing depreciates a man more than to show he is a man like other men 289．要贬低一个人，莫过于表明他和任何人都没有区别 290．It is a piece of good fortune to combine men’s love and respect 290．如能赢得人们的喜爱和尊敬，则是莫大的幸运 291．Know how to test people 291．懂得如何揣测他人 292．Let your personal qualities surpass those of your office 292．让你自身的素质超过职责的要求 293．Maturity 293．做人应成熟 294．Be moderate in your views 294．观点不能有所偏颇 295．Do not affect what you have not effected 295．若未奏效，不要邀功 296．Noble qualities 296．高贵的品质 297．Always act as if your acts were seen 297．行动总如处于监视中 298．Three things go to a prodigy 298．可造就非凡之人的三大要素 299．Leave off hungry 299．让人有饥饿感 300．In one word, be a saint 300．总而言之，做一位圣徒
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