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 1)yarn. 2)Bereavements and blessings, one following anther, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the 3)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, 4)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 5)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 6)repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

    風(fēng)平浪靜的大海上，每個(gè)人都是領(lǐng)航員。

    但只有晴天沒(méi)有陰霾，只有快樂(lè)沒(méi)有悲傷，那就全然不是人生。就拿最幸福的人來(lái)說(shuō)吧——他們的命運(yùn)就是一團(tuán)糾纏不清的紗線。喪親之痛和神恩賜福此起彼伏，讓我們悲歡交替。甚至連死亡本身也使生命更加珍貴。人們?cè)谏�命的莊嚴(yán)時(shí)刻，在哀傷和喪親的陰影之下，最接近真實(shí)的自我。

    在生活或事業(yè)中，性格比才智更能指導(dǎo)我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導(dǎo)我們，而由判斷而得的克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。

    我一向認(rèn)為，內(nèi)心開(kāi)始生活得更為嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)娜耍�他外在的生活�?huì)開(kāi)始變得更為簡(jiǎn)樸。在物欲橫流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多么可憐。

    反思自己的過(guò)錯(cuò)以至于不重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并沒(méi)有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是超越原來(lái)的你。

    1) yarn n. 紗，紗線

    2) bereavement n. （親人）喪亡

    3) sober adj. 嚴(yán)肅的，持重的

    4) regulate v. 管制，控制

    5) extravagance n. 奢侈，過(guò)度放縱

    6) repentance n. 后悔，悔改