一、

一切事物都是一样的，进取心是常见的，耐力是短暂的，实质是粗糙的。如今万物与我们埋葬那些人的时候一样。

All things are the same,familiar in enterprise,momentary in endurance,coarse in things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

二、

如果别人说你的坏话是真的，你要纠正自己：如果那是谎言，你要一笑置之。

If evil be spoken of you and it be true,correct yourself,if it be a lie,laugh at it.

三、

充分考虑你所拥有的优点，怀着感激之情，记住，如果你没有这些优点，你是多么渴望得到它们。

Take full account of what excellencies you possess,and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them,if you had them not.

四、

不要让你的思想在你缺少的东西上奔跑，而要在你已经拥有的东西上奔跑。

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have alaready.

五、

为了取悦他人，我们失去了对生活目的地把握。

In order to please others,we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

六、

在试图取悦他人的过程中，我们发现自己被误导到了自己势力范围之外的地方。这样一来，我们就失去了对生活目标的把握。

In trying to please other people,we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of in doing so,we lose our hold on our life's purpose.

七、

我曾经是一个幸运的人，但在某种程度上，命运抛弃了我。但真正的好运是你为自己创造的。

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.but true good fortune is what you make for yourself.

八、

如果你永远不参加任何问题不完全取决于你自己的竞赛，你可能总是胜利的。

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

九、

只要你愿意，你就可以随心所欲地画自己。内在的完美宁静在于心灵的井然有序，属于你自己的境界。

It is in your power to with draw yourself whenever you de tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind,the realm of your own.