晨讀美文真正的高貴

摘錄：內心開始生活得更爲認真的人，他外在的生活會開始變得更爲簡樸。在一個物慾橫流的時代，但願我能夠向世人表明：人性真正的需求是多麼的稀少。

In a calm sea everyman is a pilot. But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest, it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns.

在風平浪靜的海面上，每一個人都可以成爲領航員。但是假如只有陽光而沒有陰影，只有歡樂而沒有痛苦，那就全然不是人生。就拿最幸福的人來說吧，他們的命運是一團糾纏的紗線，喪親之痛和神恩賜福此起彼伏，讓我們悲歡交替。

Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of the sorrow and loss.

甚至連死亡本身都讓人生更爲可愛，人們在生命的莊嚴的時刻。在哀傷和喪親的陰影之下，

人才最接近真實的自我。

In the affairs of life and of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience,discipline regulated by judgment.

在生活或事業的各種事務之中，才智的效用遠不如性格，頭腦的效用遠不如心性，天資遠不如由判斷力所約束的自制、耐心與教養。

I have always believed the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simple without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

我一向認爲內心開始生活得更爲認真的人，他外在的生活會開始變得更爲簡樸。在一個物慾橫流的時代，但願我能夠向世人表明：人性真正的需求是多麼的稀少。

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self.

反思自己的過錯，以至於不重蹈覆轍纔是真正的悔悟。比他人優越並無任何高貴之處，真正的高貴在於超越過去的自我。