雙語智慧書·在萬物中尋覓慰藉

190．在萬物中尋覓慰藉
　　在萬物中尋覓慰藉。在無用之物里你也能找到慰藉：它們可以不朽。煩憂都可以得到補償。諺語曰：傻瓜有福，丑女有夫。事物的價值越小，其生命就越長。有裂紋的杯子永遠都不碎，耐用得讓人厭煩。天妒英才，它讓無用者長壽，而讓天才早逝，以求得平衡。擔當重任者面帶悲傷；無足輕重之人，總是活得安然。要么看上去如此，要么確實如此。那些不幸的人認為，自己既被死亡之神遺忘，也未被幸運之神想起。


190．Find consolation in all things
　Find consolation in all things. Even the useless may find it in being immortal. No trouble without compensation. Fools are held to be lucky, and the good-luck of the ugly is proverbial. Be worth little and you will live long: it is the cracked glass that never gets broken, but worries one with its durability It seems that Fortune envies the great, so it equalizes things by giving long life to the useless, a short one to the important. Those who bear the burden come soon to grief, while those who are of no importance live on and on: in one case it appears so, in the other it is so. The unlucky thinks he has been forgotten by both Death and Fortune.