譯者序：曆經時光淘洗而不衰的處世經典
1.萬物已近極緻
Everything is at its acme
2.品性與智慧
Character and intellect
3.做事時常留有懸念
Keep matters for a time in suspense
4.有識亦應有膽
Knowledge and courage
5.讓彆人依賴你
Create a feeling of dependence
6.至善至美的境界
A man at his highest point
7.不要比上司更耀眼
Avoid victories over superiors
8.不被激情左右
To be without passions
9.避免土生土長的缺陷
Avoid the faults of your nation
10.財富與名望
Fortune and fame
11.擇師而交
Cultivate those who can teach you
12.自然和人工：原料與加工
Nature and art
13.有時三思而行，有時立下決斷
Act sometimes on second thoughts,
sometimes on first impulse
14.事物本身及做事的方法
The thing itself and the way it is done
15.廣納賢人
Keep ministering spirits
16.學識和善心
Knowledge and good intentions
17.變換你的行為模式
Vary the mode of action
18.能力和努力
Application and ability
19.事前不要讓人期望過高
Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
20.生逢其時的人
A man of the age
21.幸運之道
The art of being lucky
22.學以緻用
A man of knowledge to the point
23.沒有瑕疵
Be spotless
24.控製自己的幻想
Keep the imagination under control
25.善於領會弦外之音
Know how to take a hint
26.揪齣他人的把柄
Find out each man’s thumbscrew
27.求精深重於求廣博
Prize intensity more than extent
28.超凡脫俗
Common in nothing
29.剛直的人
A man of rectitude
30.不做毀譽之事
Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
31.學會趨利避害
Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
32.因善行而聞名
Have the reputation of being gracious
33.知道如何逃避
Know how to withdraw
34.瞭解自己的最強項
Know your strongest point
35.遇事斟酌，遇要事則更要斟酌
Think over things, most over the most important
36.進退之際，瞭解時運
In acting or refraining, weigh your luck
37.準備一些譏誚話，並善加利用
Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them
38.急流勇退
Leave your luck while winning
39.瞭解事物成熟的時機，並善加利用
Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them
40.獲得人們的好感
Gain the goodwill of people
41.切勿言過其實
Never exaggerate
42.天生為王
Born to wommand
43.心隨精英，口隨大眾
Think with the few and speak with the many
44.英雄相惜
Sympathy with great minds
45.狡猾可以運用，但不能濫用
Use, but do not abuse, cunning
46.控製你的反感情緒
Master your antipathies
47.避免“為榮譽而決鬥”
Avoid “affairs of honour”
48.做一個有深度的人至關重要
So much depends on being a person of depth
49.明察善斷
Observation and judgment
50.不失自尊
Never lose self-respect
51.選擇有道
Know how to choose well
52.從不慌亂
Never be put out
53.聰明且勤奮
Be diligent and intelligent
54.懂得展示你的勇氣
Know how to show your teeth
55.善於等待
Wait
56.隨機應變
Have presence of mind
57.慢且穩
Be slow and Sure
58.恰當展現自己
Adapt yourself to your company
59.要有完美的收場
Finish off well
60.判斷準確
A sound judgment
61.卓越之處求卓越
To excel in what is excellent
62.善其事必先利其器
Use good instruments
63.搶先為上
To be the first of the kind is an excellence
64.遠離煩惱
Avoid worry
65.培養高雅的品味
Elevated taste
66.使結局完美
See that things end well
67.選擇能夠獲得殊榮的行業
Choose an occupation that wins distinction
68.點撥其心智，勝於助其迴憶
It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
69.不要衝動行事
Do not give way to every common impulse
70.學會拒絕
Know how to refuse
71.不要左右搖擺
Do not vacillate
72.要當機立斷
Be resolute
73.安然退避
Utilize slips
74.與人為善
Do not be unsociable
75.選擇一位英雄作為偶像
Choose a heroic ideal
76.不要總開玩笑
Do not always be jesting
77.做人須八麵玲瓏
Be all things to all men
78.做事有道
The art of undertaking things
79.輕鬆快活的個性
A genial disposition
80.獲取信息要謹慎
Take care to get information
81.勇於推陳齣新
Renew your brilliance
82.凡事無論好與壞，不要走極端
Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill
83.容許自己有無傷大雅之過
Allow yourself some venial fault
84.善用對手
Make use of your enemies
85.不做無所不知之人
Do not be a wild card
86.預防流言蜚語
Prevent scandal
87.文明和高雅
Culture and elegance
88.舉止高貴大方
Let your behaviour be fine and noble
89.瞭解自己
Know yourself
90.長壽的秘密
The secret of long life
91.對做某事審慎與否若有疑慮，就彆著手去做
Never set to work at anything if you have
any doubts of its prudence
92.要有超凡的智慧
Transcendent wisdom
93.多纔多藝
Versatility
94.讓你的纔能高深莫測
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
95.讓人們保持對你的期望
Keep expectation alive
96.至高無上的辨彆力
The highest discretion
97.贏得並維護美名
Obtain and preserve a reputation
98.掩飾你的意圖
Write your intentions in cypher
99.本質與錶象
Reality and appearance
100.做一個清醒的人，智慧的信徒，賢能的臣子
Be a man without illusions,
a wise christian, a philosophic courtier
101.世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人，其實他們都是蠢人
One half of the world laughs at the other,
and fools are they all
102.天降大福需有大心胸消受
Be able to stomach big slices of luck
103.讓每人都保有尊嚴
Let each keep up his dignity
104.明確不同工作的要求
Know the demands of different occupations
105.勿遭人煩
Don't be a bore
106.勿炫耀你的地位
Do not parade your position
107.勿自鳴得意
Show no self-satisfaction
108.與人同行是成為偉人的捷徑
The path to greatness is along with others
109.不要吹毛求疵
Be not censorious
110.不要坐以待斃
Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
111.贏得朋友
Have friends
112.博取他人的好感
Gain good-will
113.未雨綢繆
In prosperity prepare for adversity
114.避免與人相爭
Never compete
115.習慣熟人的缺點
Get used to the failings of your familiars
116.隻和可敬之人交往
Only act with honourable men
117.決不談論自己
Never talk about yourself
118.要贏得謙恭有禮的名聲
Acquire the reputation of courtesy
119.避免惹人厭煩
Avoid becoming disliked
120.生活講求實際
Live practically
121.不要小題大做
Do not make a business of what is no business
122.言行應有威信
Distinction in speech and action
123.避免矯揉造作
Avoid affectation
124.要被他人想念
Get yourself missed
125.不要成為汙點記錄簿
Do not be a black list
126.愚蠢並非做瞭蠢事，而在於做後不知掩飾
Folly consists not in
committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed
127.凡是從容優雅
Grace in everything
128.要有高遠的誌嚮
Highmindedness
129.從不抱怨
Never complain
130.要乾，且要讓人看見
Do and be seen doing
131.慷慨大度
Nobility of feeling
132.修正自己的判斷
Revise your judgments
133.寜可同醉，而不獨醒
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
134.加倍儲存你的資源
Double your resources
135.不要滋長唱反調的習氣
Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
136.抓住事情關鍵
Post yourself in the centre of things
137.聖人自足
The sage should be self-sufficing
138.任其自然的藝術
The art of letting things alone
139.冷靜麵對倒黴的日子
Recognize unlucky days
140.一眼看到事物好的一麵
Find the good in a thing at once
141.不要隻傾聽自己的聲音
Do not listen to yourself
142.當對手先站在正確的一方時,你不能固執地站在錯誤的一方
Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
143.彆為免俗而玩弄詭辯之術
Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
144.開始於他人，受用於自己
Begin with another's to end with your own
145.藏好你受傷的手指
Do not show your wounded finger
146.透過現象看本質
Look into the interior of things
147.采納他人的建議
Do not be inaccessible
148.掌握談話的藝術
Have the art of conversation
149.懂得推罪於人
Know how to put off ills on others
150.推銷得法
Know how to get your price for things
151.高瞻遠矚
Think beforehand
152.不與令自己黯然失色之人為伍
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
153.不要去填補前人留下的巨大空缺
Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
154.不輕易相信，也不輕易喜歡
Do not believe, or like, lightly
155.掌控激情的藝術
The art of mastering your passions
156.選擇你的朋友
Select your friends
157.識人彆齣錯
Do not make mistakes about character
158.善用朋友
Make use of your friends
159.忍受愚蠢
Put up with fools
160.說話要謹慎
Be careful in speaking
161.認清自身喜愛的缺點
Know your pet faults
162.如何戰勝對手和誹謗者
How to triumph over rivals and detractors
163.決不因同情而捲入他人的不幸
Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,
involve yourself in his fate
164.投石問路
Throw straws in the air
165.鬥爭也要講體麵
Wage war honourably
166.分辨善言者與善行者
Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
167.知道怎樣依靠自己
Know how to take your own part
168.不要淪為愚蠢的怪物
Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
169.多加小心，避免萬一失手勝過百發百中
Be more careful not to miss once
than to hit a hundred times
170.凡事有所保留
In all things keep something in reserve
171.不要濫用人情
Do not waste influence
172.決不與一無所有者爭鬥
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
173.與人相交，不要像玻璃般易碎，朋友間尤其如此
Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
174.不要活在匆忙中
Do not live in a hurry
175.做個實在的人
A solid man
176.自知或從知者處知
Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge
177.避免與人太親近
Avoid familiarities in intercourse
178.信賴你的內心
Trust your heart
179.緘默是纔能的標誌
Reticence is the seal of capacity
180.決不被敵人誤導
Never be guided by what your enemy has done
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295.若未奏效，不要邀功
Do not affect what you have not effected
296.高貴的品質
Noble qualities
297.行動總如處於監視中
Always act as if your acts were seen
298.可造就非凡之人的三大要素
Three things go to a prodigy
299.讓人有飢餓感
Leave off hungry
300.總而言之，做一位聖徒
In one word, be a saint
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