真实的高贵 文/海明威

作者: 慢一点　发布: 2013-9-28　分类: 人生感悟　阅读: 次　查看评论

风平浪静的大海，每个人都是领航员。

但是，只有阳光而无阴影，只有欢乐而无痛苦，那就不是人生。以最幸福的人的生活为例–它是一团纠缠在一起的麻线。丧母之痛和幸福祝愿彼此相接，，是我们一会伤心，一会高兴，甚至死亡本身也会使生命更加可亲。在人生的清醒的时刻，在哀痛和伤心的阴影之下，人们真实的自我最接近。

在人生或者职业的各种事务中，性格的作用比智力大得多，头脑的作用不如心情，天资不如由判断力所节制着的自制，耐心和规律。

我始终相信，开始在内心生活得更严肃的人，也会在外表上开始生活得更朴素。在一个奢华浪费的年代，我希望能向世界表明，人类真正需要的的东西是非常之微少的。

悔恨自己的错误，而且力求不再重蹈覆辙，这才是真正的悔悟。优于别人，并不高贵，真正的高贵应该是优于过去的自己。

True Nobility

In a calm sea every man 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. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

In the affairs of life or 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, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

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

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 in being superior to your previous self.

附：蒋来译本

风平浪静之时, 人人皆能驾驭船只。

倘只见阳光，不见阴霾，只见愉悦欢笑, 不见悲伤泪泣 , 那么这不是生活的本意。

人生之乐，其实如一团纠结的麻线。事有悲欢离合，因循往复；人有喜怒哀乐，周而复始，甚至死亦能让人对生益加眷恋。所以，当惘然若失，悲由心生之时，人往往最接近自我。

无论是在生活上还是事业上，才智不及性情，头脑不及内心，禀赋不及基于判断力的自制、忍耐、自律和理智，能更多地反映一个人。

我深信为人内行严谨，于外则更趋简单。而今之世，物欲充塞，奢靡成风，我愿告之世人，内心真正需求之物，本不甚多。

错而能改，不蹈覆辙，始为真悔；胜人一筹，高人一等，妄论高贵；真高贵者，唯在于能胜己，汲取前路得失，以期后有所成。

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