培根经典哲理美文
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. This passion hath his floods, in very times of weakness; which are great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter hath been less observed: both which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly 当人心最软弱的时候,爱情最容易入侵,那就是当人得意春风,忘乎所以和处境窘困孤独凄零的时候,虽然后者未必能得到爱情。人在这样的时候最急于跳入爱情的火焰中由此可见,“爱情”实在是“愚蠢”的儿子。 In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but that he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth is griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance 美犹如盛夏的水果,是容易腐烂而难保持的,世上有许多美人,她们有过放荡的青春,却迎受着愧悔的晚年。 Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitter for new projects than for settled business. |
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