the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
唯一真正的智慧是自知无知。
the unexamined life is not worth living.
未经审视的生活不值得活。
there is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
唯一的好是知识，唯一的坏是无知。
i cannot teach anybody anything. i can only make them think.
我不能教会别人任何事。我只能让他们思考。
wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
好奇是智慧的开端。
be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
与人为善，因为你所遇到的每一个人都在进行着某种形式的艰苦斗争。
to find yourself, think for yourself.
要想找到自我，必须独立思考。
by all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
还是结婚吧；如果你找到了一位好妻子，你会变得幸福；如果你有找到了一位坏妻子，你会成为一位哲人。
be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
缓慢落入友谊，但当你正在进行时，继续保持坚定和不变。
strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
大智论道，中智论事，小智论人。
education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
教育是燃起火焰，而非灌输一个容器。
he who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
他不满他所拥有的，也不会满足他想要的。
if you don*t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don*t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can*t hold on to it forever. your mind is your predicament. it wants to be free of change. free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. but change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
如果你没有得到你想要的，你会痛苦；如果你得到了你不想要的，你会痛苦，即使你得到了你想要的，你也痛苦，因为你永远不能抓住它。你的思想就是你的困境。它想要免受改变。免受烦恼、免受生与死的义务。但变化就是规律，再多的假象也无法掩盖这一现实。
our youth now love luxury. they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
wǒ men现在的青年爱奢侈。他们不礼貌，蔑视权威；他们不尊敬长辈而且爱喋喋不休；当长辈进入房间时他们不再起身；他们顶撞他们的父母，在聚会时喋喋不休；霸占他们的食物并欺压他们的教师。
sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
有时你建起心墙并非为了远离人群，而是为了看清谁在乎去推倒它。
know thyself.
认识你自己。
let him who would move the world first move himself.
要想改变世界需先改变他自己。
death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
死亡可能是人类最伟大的福气。
the secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
幸福的秘诀，不是寻求更多发现，而是在成长中享受到细微的一种能力。
contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
知足是天然的财富，奢侈是人为的贫困。
when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
诽谤成为了辩论失败者的工具。
every action has its pleasures and its price.
每个行为都有它的乐趣和它的代价。
do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
不要让别人激怒你，如果别人对你做了什么。
i am not an athenian or a greek, but a citizen of the world.
我不是一位雅典人或希腊人，而是一位世界的公民。
the secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
改变的秘诀是集中你的所有能力，不是摧毁旧的，而是建造新的。
employ your time in improving yourself by other men*s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
将你的时间用在阅读他人的作品上，别人费力学到的东西，你就能轻松获得。
the hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, i to die, and you to live. which of these two is better only god knows.
离别的时刻已经到来，wǒ men分道扬镳，我死去，你活着。这两种哪个更好只有神知道。
envy is the ulcer of the soul.
嫉妒是灵魂的肿瘤。
understanding a question is half an answer.
理解一个问题就是答案的一半。
beware the barrenness of a busy life.
当心碌碌无为的生活。
the hottest love has the coldest end.
最热烈的爱会有最冷漠的结局。
thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
你吃饭是为了活着；活着不是为了吃饭()。
i know that i am intelligent, because i know that i know nothing.
我知道我是聪明的，因为我自知无知。
true wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
真正的智慧是当wǒ men每一个人认识到wǒ men对生活、自我和周围的世界了解得多么少的时候。
we can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
wǒ men可以轻易地原谅一个孩子怕黑；但成人怕光是人生的真正悲哀。
from the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
最深的欲望总能引起最深的仇恨。
be as you wish to seem.
如你所愿。
the greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
这世上获得荣誉的最佳方式是wǒ men将伪装成的样子（而得到的荣誉）。
the really important thing is not to live, but to live well. and to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
真正重要的不是活着，而是活得更好。而且好的生活意味着生活中还有更有趣的事物，要按照你的原则生活。
once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
一旦与男人平等，女人就高高在上。
in all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
在所有人中，即使是好男人，都有一个放纵的野兽本性，这同样发生在睡眠中。
one should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
永远不该以错事作为回报，也不要虐待任何人，无论别人如何虐待了他。
he is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
知足常乐者最富有，因为知足本身就是天然的财富。
the easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
最简单而高贵的方式不是压榨别人，而是提高你自己。
think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
那些总是赞美你言行的人必定不是忠诚的朋友，忠诚意味着温和地指出你的过失。
to fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. no one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
恐惧死亡，先生们，（…省略…）。没有人知道死亡可能不是一个人最幸福的事，而人们恐惧它，就像他们知道一样，这是最大的恶。
regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. the way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
信用是像火一样富有的珠宝；一旦你有了它，可以保存它，但如果你一旦熄灭了它，你会发现重燃它是一项艰巨的任务。一个获得良好声誉的方法是努力成为你理想的样子。
