A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
聪明人
Wise Man
A wise man may learn of a fool.
智者可向愚者学习。
Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
理解整体是明智的。
A fool may give a wise man counsel.
愚者给智者忠告。
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
蠢人盖房子，聪明人买房子。
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
在希腊，智者说话，愚者做决定。
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
只有聪明人才能认出一个聪明人。
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
他是一个创造了上帝观念的智者。
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
聪明人永远不会知道一切，只有傻瓜才知道一切。
Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.
傻瓜问时间，聪明人知道时间。
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
规则是为愚妄人所定的，为智慧人所定的。
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
聪明人知道勇气的终点和愚蠢的起点。
A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it.
傻瓜可能会遇到好运，但聪明人只会从中获益。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
聪明的人应该这样写(虽然是用人人都能理解的语言)，只有聪明的人才能赞扬他。
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
因此，没有人生来就没有缺点，即使是最优秀的人，只要他的缺点是最少的，他就会受到尊敬。因为在世俗的事上，天下没有十全十美的幸福。
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
能保守秘密的人也许是聪明的，但他的智慧还不及没有秘密可保守的人的一半。
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
最好和最安全的事情是在你的生活中保持平衡，承认我们周围和我们内心的强大力量。如果你能做到这一点，并以这种方式生活，你真的是一个聪明人。
A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.
聪明的人写下他的想法，愚蠢的人忘记他的想法，完全的傻瓜为他的想法惩罚自己。
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
智者知道如何管理自己的生活，这样沉思才有可能。