(為什麼每次都在有主要任務的時候做別的事情啊我。。。
還有一言,願我的孩子靜聽——
And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character.
勿言思無障,萬事行前三思。
Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
待人自當和暖,並忌失當親狎。
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
相知有素之友,則銘記於心;但不可濫施交情於新識。
T'hose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade.
留心力避辭爭。若爭端既起,則必彰莊穆非侮。
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in, Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.、
耳傾千言萬語,不忘少說詞句;俯首為千夫指,不忘初心明志。
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
可散財貨於諸衣裳、器物,華美莊嚴,力免炫新立異;求富麗,減浮豔——服器鑒人乃是常人共識之故。法蘭西諸貴族、紳士,尤為精於此道。
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
勿告貸賒欠,亦毋容許他人告貸賒欠。債章一記,難免本金糊塗,情誼勾抹,落得個錢情雙銷,而向人告貸,則以遺因循慵懶之劣根。
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
而後有言,立身處世,曰清曰誠,盡忠於己。
恰似晝存夜具之理,對己忠實,方得無嗔癡訛詐,於己於斯。
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!