智慧书

序号	标题	中文	英文
97	97	97．成名并保持你的名声我们喜欢名声，但是名声来之不易，因为它产生于卓越，而卓越是稀有的，正像平庸是很平常的一样，一旦获得它，就很容易保持。它要兑现许多承诺，它要做出许多的事迹。它若来自于高贵的出身和崇高的行为，则具一种威严气象。货真价实的名声是真正持久的名声。	97 Obtain and preserve a Reputation. It is the usufruct of fame. It is expensive to obtain a reputation, for it only attaches to distinguished abilities, which are as rare as mediocrities are common. Once obtained, it is easily preserved. It confers many an obligation, but it does more. When it is owing to elevated powers or lofty spheres of action, it rises to a kind of veneration and yields a sort of majesty. But it is only a well-founded reputation that lasts permanently.
98	98	98．隐藏你的意图激情是精神的大门。最实用的知识存在于掩饰之中。亮出自己牌的人可能会输掉。不要让别人的关注战胜你的谨慎和小心。当你的对手像山猫一样窥视你的思想时，你要像乌贼喷墨一样掩饰它，不要让任何人发现你的意图，不要让别人预见到它，也不要别人阻碍或夸耀你的意愿。	98 Write your Intentions in Cypher. The passions are the gates of the soul. The most practical knowledge consists in disguising them. He that plays with cards exposed runs a risk of losing the stakes. The reserve of caution should combat the curiosity of inquirers: adopt the policy of the cuttlefish. Do not even let your tastes be known, lest others utilise them either by running counter to them or by flattering them.
99	99	99．真相与表象世间的事物，其表象与真相往往不同。很少有人透过表象看真相，多半只满足于浮光掠影的表象。要做正人君子，而脸上又凶相毕露，岂能奏效！	99 Reality and Appearance. Things pass for what they seem, not for what they are. Few see inside; many take to the outside. It is not enough to be right, if right seem false and ill.
100	100	100．不沉浸于幻觉和欺骗不沉浸于幻觉和欺骗者是有德有智之君子，是高贵的哲学家。但不要只重表面，也不要炫耀你的美德。哲学已不受人尊敬，尽管它是追求智慧的主要方式。人们不再尊重关于谨慎的科学。塞内加把它引入罗马，一度曾使贵族们争相效仿，但现在人们觉得它毫无用处，令人讨厌。然而不虚伪是谨慎的主要因素，也是正直者的一桩快事。	100 A Man without Illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic Courtier. Be all these, not merely seem to be them, still less affect to be them. Philosophy is nowadays discredited, but yet it was always the chiefest concern of the wise. The art of Thinking has lost all its former repute. Seneca introduced it at Rome: it went to court for some time, but now it is considered out of place there. And yet the discovery of deceit was always thought the true nourishment of a thoughtful mind, the true delight of a virtuous soul.
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