窮理查年鑑

窮理查年鑑
Benjamin Franklin

- 一個今天，值得兩個明天。
One To-day is worth To-morrows.
- 別拿美德換富裕，別拿自由換權力。
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth,nor Liberty to purchase power.
-小房子住得好，小田地耕耘好，家裡的老婆心地好，才是真正的富豪。
A little House well fill'd,a little Field well till'd,and a little Wife well will'd,are great Riches.
- 聖誕大餐的飯禱要注意，別使餐桌成陷阱，要將上帝的恩澤分享給貧苦人民。
In Christmas Feasting pray take care:Let not your table be a Snare;but with the Poor God's Bounty Share.
- 古代哲學家說過，幸福依靠內在的氣質高低，勝過依靠外在的物質好壞；不能在任何狀況感到幸福的人，在任何狀況都沒法獲得幸福。要得到幸福，他們說，必定要能夠知足。
Some ancient Philosophers have said,that Happiness depends more on the inward Disposition of Mind than on outward Circumstances;
and that he who cannot be happy in any State,can be so in no State.To be happy,they tell us we must be content.
- 想要一生平安順遂，別把一切所知都拿來說嘴，也別把一切所見都當成絕對。
He that would live in peace & at ease.Must not speak all he knows,nor judge all he sees.
- 若將秘密對人講，你的自由就賣光。
To whom they secret thou dost tell,To him thy freedom thou dost sell.
- 急事緩辦
Make haste slowly.
- 傻子笨得藏不住自己的智慧有多少
He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.
- 視個人體質攝取適當的飲食，參考指標是你的心靈做了多少事。書讀得多，消化就差得多，所以不該吃得像勞動多的人吃得那麼多。
Eat and drink such an exact Quantity as the Constitution of thy Body allows of,in reference to the Services of the Mind.
They that study much,ought not to eat so much as those that work hard,their Digestion being not so good.
- 想活久一點，吃得少一點
To lengthen thy Lift,lessen thy Meals.
- 要為了滿足必須來進食，不是為了口腹之慾而吃，因為慾望對於什麼較必須，根本一無所知。
Eat for Necessity,not Pleasure,for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.