True Nobility

[00:00.08]True Nobility#
真正的高贵#

[00:04.65]In a calm sea every man is a pilot.#
在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。#

[00:08.66]But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.#
但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.#

[00:16.29]Take the lot of the happiest，it is a tangled yarn.#
就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。#

[00:20.99]Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns.#
痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。#

[00:28.84]Even death itself makes life more loving.#
甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。#

[00:33.04]Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorrow and loss.#
在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。#

[00:42.67]In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character,#
在生活和事业的种种事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，#

[00:50.74]not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.#
心灵比头脑更能引导我们，而由判断获得的克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。#

[01:02.39]I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.#
我一向认为，内心生活开始更为严谨的人，他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。#

[01:11.34]In an age of extravagance and waste,#
在物欲横流的年代，#

[01:15.14]I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.#
但愿我能向世人表明：人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。#

[01:22.61]To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.#
反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。#

[01:29.31]There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.#
高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。#

[01:34.34]The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.#
真正的高贵是优于过去的自已。