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尼可罗·马基雅维利《君主论》· The Prince · 领导 · 财富 · 历史 · 认知

I could recount many other stories of his sayings both witty and weighty, but I think that the above will be sufficient testimony to his high qualities. He lived forty-four years, and was in every way a prince. And as he was surrounded by many evidences of his good fortune, so he also desired to have near him some memorials of his bad fortune; therefore the manacles with which he was chained in prison are to be seen to this day fixed up in the tower of his residence, where they were placed by him to testify forever to his days of adversity. As in his life he was inferior neither to Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander, nor to Scipio of Rome, so he died in the same year of his age as they did, and he would doubtless have excelled both of them had Fortune decreed that he should be born, not in Lucca, but in Macedonia or Rome.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232
定位:Excerpt 116 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

卡斯特鲁乔还有许多机智而深刻的言行,但以上足以证明他的卓越品质。他活了四十四岁,处处显露出君主风范。他身边有许多好运的见证,也愿意保留一些厄运的纪念物:当年在监狱里锁住他的镣铐,至今还挂在他住所的塔楼上,是他亲手放置,以永久见证他的逆境。他生前不亚于亚历山大的父亲马其顿的腓力,也不亚于罗马的西庇阿;他去世时的年龄也与他们相同。如果命运让他出生在马其顿或罗马,而不是卢卡,他无疑会超越那两位。这说明:逆境可以成为自我提醒的纪念,而环境对才能的发挥有巨大限制。

上下文

马基雅维利《君主论》中总结卡斯特鲁乔生平与品质的段落。

今日一问

你是否保留了一些逆境的纪念,用来提醒自己,而不是只展示成功?

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