沉思录——目录

译者序:历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典/1     1.万物已近极致/3     Everything is at its acme     2.品性与智慧/3     Character and intellect     3.做事时常留有悬念/3     Keep matters for a time in suspense     4.有识亦应有胆/5     Knowledge and courage     5.让别人依赖你/5     Create a feeling of dependence     6.至善至美的境界/7     A man at his highest point     7.不要比上司更耀眼/9     Avoid victories over superiors     8.不被激情左右/11     To be without passions     9.避免土生土长的缺陷/11     Avoid the faults of your nation     10.财富与名望/13     Fortune and fame     11.择师而交/13     Cultivate those who can teach you     12.自然和人工:原料与加工/15     Nature and art     13.有时三思而行,有时立下决断/15     Act sometimes on second thoughts,     sometimes on first impulse     14.事物本身及做事的方法/19     The thing itself and the way it is done     15.广纳贤人/19     Keep ministering spirits     16.学识和善心/21     Knowledge and good intentions     17.变换你的行为模式/21     Vary the mode of action     18.能力和努力/23     Application and ability     19.事前不要让人期望过高/25     Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering     20.生逢其时的人/27     A man of the age     21.幸运之道/27     The art of being lucky     22.学以致用/29     A man of knowledge to the point     23.没有瑕疵/29     Be spotless     24.控制自己的幻想/31     Keep the imagination under control     25.善于领会弦外之音/31     Know how to take a hint     26.揪出他人的把柄/33     Find out each man’s thumbscrew     27.求精深重于求广博/33     Prize intensity more than extent     28.超凡脱俗/35     Common in nothing     29.刚直的人/35     A man of rectitude     30.不做毁誉之事/37     Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute     31.学会趋利避害/39     Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky     32.因善行而闻名/39     Have the reputation of being gracious     33.知道如何逃避/41     Know how to withdraw     34.了解自己的最强项/41     Know your strongest point     35.遇事斟酌,遇要事则更要斟酌/43     Think over things, most over the most important     36.进退之际,了解时运/45     In acting or refraining, weigh your luck     37.准备一些讥诮话,并善加利用/45     Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them     38.急流勇退/47     Leave your luck while winning     39.了解事物成熟的时机,并善加利用/49     Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them     40.获得人们的好感/49     Gain the goodwill of people     41.切勿言过其实/51     Never exaggerate     42.天生为王/53     Born to wommand     43.心随精英,口随大众/53     Think with the few and speak with the many     44.英雄相惜/55     Sympathy with great minds     45.狡猾可以运用,但不能滥用/57     Use, but do not abuse, cunning     46.控制你的反感情绪/57     Master your antipathies     47.避免“为荣誉而决斗”/59     Avoid “affairs of honour”     48.做一个有深度的人至关重要/59     So much depends on being a person of depth     49.明察善断/61     Observation and judgment     50.不失自尊/61     Never lose self-respect     51.选择有道/63     Know how to choose well     52.从不慌乱/63     Never be put out     53.聪明且勤奋/65     Be diligent and intelligent     54.懂得展示你的勇气/65     Know how to show your teeth     55.善于等待/67     Wait     56.随机应变/67     Have presence of mind     57.慢且稳/69     Be slow and Sure     58.恰当展现自己/69     Adapt yourself to your company     59.要有完美的收场/71     Finish off well     60.判断准确/71     A sound judgment     61.卓越之处求卓越/73     To excel in what is excellent     62.善其事必先利其器/73     Use good instruments     63.抢先为上/75     To be the first of the kind is an excellence     64.远离烦恼/77     Avoid worry     65.培养高雅的品味/77     Elevated taste     66.使结局完美/79     See that things end well     67.选择能够获得殊荣的行业/81     Choose an occupation that wins distinction     68.点拨其心智,胜于助其回忆/81     It is better to help with intelligence than with memory     69.不要冲动行事/83     Do not give way to every common impulse     70.学会拒绝/85     Know how to refuse     71.不要左右摇摆/87     Do not vacillate     72.要当机立断/87     Be resolute     73.安然退避/89     Utilize slips     74.与人为善/89     Do not be unsociable     75.选择一位英雄作为偶像/91     Choose a heroic ideal     76.不要总开玩笑/93     Do not always be jesting     77.做人须八面玲珑/93     Be all things to all men     78.做事有道/95     The art of undertaking things     79.轻松快活的个性/95     A genial disposition     80.获取信息要谨慎/97     Take care to get information     81.勇于推陈出新/97     Renew your brilliance     82.凡事无论好与坏,不要走极端/99     Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill     83.容许自己有无伤大雅之过/99     Allow yourself some venial fault     84.善用对手/101     Make use of your enemies     85.不做无所不知之人/103     Do not be a wild card     86.预防流言蜚语/103     Prevent scandal     87.文明和高雅/105     Culture and elegance     88.举止高贵大方/107     Let your behaviour be fine and noble     89.了解自己/107     Know yourself     90.长寿的秘密/109     The secret of long life     91.对做某事审慎与否若有疑虑,就别着手去做/109     Never set to work at anything if you have     any doubts of its prudence     92.要有超凡的智慧/111     Transcendent wisdom     93.多才多艺/111     Versatility     94.让你的才能高深莫测/113     Keep the extent of your abilities unknown     95.让人们保持对你的期望/113     Keep expectation alive     96.至高无上的辨别力/113     The highest discretion     97.赢得并维护美名/115     Obtain and preserve a reputation     98.掩饰你的意图/115     Write your intentions in cypher     99.本质与表象/117     Reality and appearance     100.做一个清醒的人,智慧的信徒,贤能的臣子/117     Be a man without illusions,     a wise christian, a philosophic courtier     101.世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人,其实他们都是蠢人/119     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/119     Be able to stomach big slices of luck     103.让每人都保有尊严/121     Let each keep up his dignity     104.明确不同工作的要求/123     Know the demands of different occupations     105.勿遭人烦/123     Don’t be a bore     106.勿炫耀你的地位/125     Do not parade your position     107.勿自鸣得意/127     Show no self-satisfaction     108.与人同行是成为伟人的捷径/129     The path to greatness is along with others     109.不要吹毛求疵/129     Be not censorious     110.不要坐以待毙/131     Do not wait till you are a sinking sun     111.赢得朋友/131     Have friends     112.博取他人的好感/133     Gain good-will     113.未雨绸缪/135     In prosperity prepare for adversity     114.避免与人相争/135     Never compete     115.习惯熟人的缺点/137     Get used to the failings of your familiars     116.只和可敬之人交往/137     Only act with honourable men     117.决不谈论自己/139     Never talk about yourself     118.要赢得谦恭有礼的名声/139     Acquire the reputation of courtesy     119.避免惹人厌烦/141     Avoid becoming disliked     120.生活讲求实际/143     Live practically     121.不要小题大做/145     Do not make a business of what is no business     122.言行应有威信/145     Distinction in speech and action     123.避免矫揉造作/147     Avoid affectation     124.要被他人想念/147     Get yourself missed     125.不要成为污点记录簿/149     Do not be a black list     126.愚蠢并非做了蠢事,而在于做后不知掩饰/151     Folly consists not in     committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed     127.凡是从容优雅/151     Grace in everything     128.要有高远的志向/153     Highmindedness     129.从不抱怨/153     Never complain     130.要干,且要让人看见/155     Do and be seen doing     131.慷慨大度/157     Nobility of feeling     132.修正自己的判断/157     Revise your judgments     133.宁可同醉,而不独醒/159     Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone     134.加倍储存你的资源/159     Double your resources     135.不要滋长唱反调的习气/161     Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction     136.抓住事情关键/163     Post yourself in the centre of things     137.圣人自足/163     The sage should be self-sufficing     138.任其自然的艺术/165     The art of letting things alone     139.冷静面对倒霉的日子/165     Recognize unlucky days     140.一眼看到事物好的一面/167     Find the good in a thing at once     141.不要只倾听自己的声音/169     Do not listen to yourself     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/171     Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your     opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one     143.别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术/173     Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite     144.开始于他人,受用于自己/173     Begin with another’s to end with your own     145.藏好你受伤的手指/175     Do not show your wounded finger     146.透过现象看本质/177     Look into the interior of things     147.采纳他人的建议/177     Do not be inaccessible     148.掌握谈话的艺术/179     Have the art of conversation     149.懂得推罪于人/181     Know how to put off ills on others     150.推销得法/181     Know how to get your price for things     151.高瞻远瞩/183     Think beforehand     152.不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍/185     Never have a companion who casts you in the shade     153.不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺/185     Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled     154.不轻易相信,也不轻易喜欢/187     Do not believe, or like, lightly     155.掌控激情的艺术/189     The art of mastering your passions     156.选择你的朋友/189     Select your friends     157.识人别出错/191     Do not make mistakes about character     158.善用朋友/193     Make use of your friends     159.忍受愚蠢/195     Put up with fools     160.说话要谨慎/195     Be careful in speaking     161.认清自身喜爱的缺点/197     Know your pet faults     162.如何战胜对手和诽谤者/197     How to triumph over rivals and detractors     163.决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸/199     Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,     involve yourself in his fate     164.投石问路/201     Throw straws in the air     165.斗争也要讲体面/201     Wage war honourably     166.分辨善言者与善行者/203     Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds     167.知道怎样依靠自己/203     Know how to take your own part     168.不要沦为愚蠢的怪物/205     Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly     169.多加小心,避免万一失手胜过百发百中/207     Be more careful not to miss once     than to hit a hundred times     170.凡事有所保留/207     In all things keep something in reserve     171.不要滥用人情/209     Do not waste influence     172.决不与一无所有者争斗/209     Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose     173.与人相交,不要像玻璃般易碎,朋友间尤其如此/211     Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship     174.不要活在匆忙中/213     Do not live in a hurry     175.做个实在的人/213     A solid man     176.自知或从知者处知/215     Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge     177.避免与人太亲近/217     Avoid familiarities in intercourse     178.信赖你的内心/217     Trust your heart     179.缄默是才能的标志/219     Reticence is the seal of capacity     180.决不被敌人误导/221     Never be guided by what your enemy has done     181.说真话,但不要说出所有真话/221     The truth, but not the whole truth     182.凡事都要勇敢/221     A grain of boldness in everything     183.不要固执己见/223     Do not hold your views too firmly     184.不要过分拘礼/225     Do not be ceremonious     185.切莫孤注一掷赌名声/225     Never stake your credit on a single cast     186.认识缺点,不管其地位有多高/227     Recognize faults, however high placed     187.令人愉快之事,自己做;令人不快之事,让他人代劳/229     Do pleasant things yourself,     unpleasant things through others     188.成为赞美之人/229     Be the bearer of praise     189.利用他人的欲望/231     Utilize another’s wants     190.在万物中寻觅慰藉/233     Find consolation in all things     191.慎防巧言令色/233     Do not take payment in politeness     192.心境平和则长寿/235     Peaceful life, a long life     193.防备那些利用他人达到自己目的的人/235     Watch him that begins with another’s     to end with his own     194.理性看待自己和自己的事/237     Have reasonable views of yourself and of your affairs     195.学会欣赏别人/239     Know how to appreciate     196.知道你的幸运星/239     Know your ruling star     197.不要为蠢人所累/241     Do not carry fools on your back     198.懂得易地而处/243     Know how to transplant yourself     199.获得自己合适的位置,凭德行而非逾越/245     To find a proper place by merit, not by presumption     200.把一些愿望留到以后去满足/245     Leave something to wish for     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/247     They are all fools who seem so besides half the rest     202.言语和行为共同打造完美之人/247     Words and deeds make the perfect man     203.认识你这个时代的伟人/249     Know the great men of your age     204.举轻若重,且举重若轻/249     Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult,     and difficult as if they were easy     205.懂得漠视的技巧/251     Know how to play the card of contempt     206.要明白平庸者无处不在/253     Know that there are vulgar people everywhere     207.学会控制自己/253     Be moderate     208.不要死于愚蠢/255     Do not die of the fools’ disease     209.超然于世俗的愚蠢/257     Keep yourself free from common follies     210.懂得怎样对待真相/257     Know how to play the card of truth     211.天堂中一切是福,地狱中所有为苦/259     In heaven all is bliss     212.懂得保留绝招的艺术/259     Keep to yourself the final touches of your art     213.懂得如何反驳/261     Know how to contradict     214.不要把一个错误变成两个错误/263     Do not turn one blunder into two     215.提防那些掩饰自己意图的人/263     Watch him that acts on second thoughts     216.清楚地表达自己/265     Be expressive     217.没有永远的爱,也没有永远的恨/267     Neither love nor hate forever     218.行动不可出自固执,而应源于了解/267     Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge     219.不要被看成伪君子/269     Do not pass for a hypocrite     220.不能披狮皮,那就披狐皮/271     If you cannot clothe yourself in lionskin use foxpelt     221.不要动辄使自己和他人感到尴尬/271     Do not seize occasions to embarrass yourself or others     222.缄默是谨慎的表现/273     Reserve is proof of prudence     223.不要因做作或粗心而显得古怪/273     Be not eccentric     224.不看事物的反面,不管事情怎样出现/275     Never take things against the grain     225.知道你最大的缺点/275     Know your chief fault     226.乐于帮助他人/277     Take care to be obliging     227.不要成为第一印象的奴隶/277     Do not be the slave of first impressions     228.不要传播丑闻/279     Do not be a scandal-monger     229.合理规划自己的生活/281     Plan out your life wisely     230.早日睁开你的眼睛/281     Open your eyes betimes     231.不让他人看到未成之事/283     Never let things be seen half-finished     232.要接触实务/285     Have a touch of business sense     233.提供点食物,不要让人难咽/285     Let not the proffered morsel be distasteful     234.决不把名誉托付他人,除非他人以名誉作抵押/287     Never trust your honour to another,     unless you have his in pledge     235.求人有术/289     Know how to ask     236.如果日后必求人且需答谢,还不如先施惠于人/289     Make an obligation beforehand     of what would have to be a reward afterwards     237.决不分享上司的秘密/291     Never share the secrets of your superiors     238.知道自己缺少什么/293     Know what is wanting in yourself     239.不要打破沙锅问到底/293     Do not be captious     240.学会装傻/295     Make use of folly     241.容忍别人嘲笑,但别嘲弄他人/295     Put up with raillery, but do not practise it     242.做事要有始有终/297     Push advantages     243.不要太过善良/299     Do not be too much of a dove     244.让别人对你感恩/299     Create a feeling of obligation     245.要有独到的见解,这是才智过人的标志/301     Original and out-of-the-way views     246.除非被要求,决不提供解释/303     Never offer satisfaction unless it is demanded     247.求知应多,生活应简/303     Know a little more, live a little less     248.不要认同最新的说法/305     Do not go with the last speaker     249.人生不要本末倒置/305     Never begin life with what should end it     250.何时把他人的话反过来听/307     When to change the conversation     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/307     Use human means as if there were no divine ones,     and divine as if there were no human ones     252.活着并非全为自己,也不是全为他人/307     Neither belong entirely to yourself nor     entirely to others     253.不要解释太多/309     Do not explain overmuch     254.勿因恶小而轻视它/311     Never despise an evil, however small     255.行善不求大,但要常去做/313     Do good a little at a time, but often     256.时刻做好防备/313     Go armed, always     257.不要轻易断交/315     Never let matters come to a rupture     258.找人分担你的烦恼/317     Find out someone to share your troubles     259.预见伤害,并将之转化为庇护/317     Anticipate injuries and turn them into favours     260.我们不完全属于任何人,也没有任何人完全属于我们/319     We belong to none and none to us, entirely     261.不要执迷不悟/319     Do not follow up a folly     262.能够忘记/321     Be able to forget     263.许多好东西你不应一味想占有/321     Many things of taste one should not possess oneself     264.每天都不能大意/323     Have no careless days     265.为部下安排最难的任务/325     Set those under you difficult task     266.不要因为太善良而变糟/325     Do not become bad from sheer goodness     267.言语温软,举止优雅/327     Silken words, sugared manners     268.蠢人最后做的事,智者会马上做/327     The wise does at once what the fool does at last     269.利用你刚上任时人们的新鲜感/329     Make use of the novelty of your position     270.众人喜欢之物,个人不要谴责/331     Do not condemn alone that which pleases all     271.不管从事任何工作,如果你所知不多,就走最安全的路线/331     In every occupation if you know little     stick to the safest path     272.出售东西,附送殷勤/333     Sell things by the tariff of courtesy     273.了解你所交往的人的性情/333     Comprehend their dispositions with whom you deal     274.要有吸引力/335     Be attractive     275.参加游戏,但应得体/335     Join in the game as far as decency permits     276.知道如何完善自己的品性/337     Know how to renew your character     277.展示你自己/339     Display yourself     278.避免抢眼而招致恶名/341     Avoid notoriety in all things     279.不要回应驳斥你的人/341     Do not contradict the contradicter     280.做个值得信赖的人/343     Be trustworthy     281.赢得智者的好感/343     Find favour with men of good sense     282.不现身,从而使自己更受敬重/345     Make use of absence to make     yourself more esteemed or valued     283.拥有善于发现之天赋/345     Have the gift of discovery     284.不要多管闲事/347     Do not be importunate     285.不要死于他人之厄运/347     Never die of another’s ill-luck     286.不要对所有的人和事都负责/349     Do not become responsible for all or for everyone     287.冲动之时决不行动/349     Never act in a passion     288.顺应时势/351     Live for the moment     289.要贬低一个人,莫过于表明他和任何人都没有区别/353     Nothing depreciates a man more than     to show he is a man like other men     290.如能赢得人们的喜爱和尊敬,则是莫大的幸运/353     It is a piece of good fortune to combine men’s     love and respect     291.懂得如何揣测他人/355     Know how to test people     292.让你自身的素质超过职责的要求/355     Let your personal qualities surpass those of your office     293.做人应成熟/357     Maturity     294.观点不能有所偏颇/357     Be moderate in your views     295.若未奏效,不要邀功/359     Do not affect what you have not effected     296.高贵的品质/361     Noble qualities     297.行动总如处于监视中/361     Always act as if your acts were seen     298.可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363     Three things go to a prodigy     299.让人有饥饿感/363     Leave off hungry     300.总而言之,做一位圣徒/365     In one word, be a saint