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弗朗西斯·培根《随笔》· Essays · 领导 · 认知 · 哲学 · 财富

Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house, somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes, sine rivali, are many times unfortunate. And whereas they have, all their times, sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end, themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self-wisdom, to have pinioned.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/575
定位:Excerpt 49 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

只为自己打算的智慧,在许多方面是堕落的。那是老鼠的智慧,房子快塌时先溜走;是狐狸的智慧,把挖洞的獾赶出去;是鳄鱼的智慧,吃人前先掉泪。特别要注意的是,那些只爱自己、没有对手的人,往往不幸。他们一生为自己牺牲一切,最终却成了命运无常的牺牲品,本以为用自私的智慧能绑住命运的翅膀。所以,真正的智慧要兼顾他人和长远,不能只算自己的账。

上下文

培根《随笔》论自谋,批评极端自私的智慧,引西塞罗论庞培。

今日一问

你最近一次只为自己盘算的决定,长远看是否反而让你更脆弱?

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