每当看到他们引经据典，潇洒甩出高冷的中国古文，轻松收割满是星星眼的崇拜目光，本君就会暗下决心，将来定要找几本中文大部头傍身撑场面。于是，勤奋好学的本君吐血搜集整理了中国古代典籍中脍炙人口的格言警句、精彩段落，而且还有它们的英译版哦。（英译版本诸多，本君就奉上最广为流传的了~）



四书 The Four Books

《大学》 The Great Learning

《中庸》 The Doctrine of the Mean

《论语》 The Confucian Analects

《孟子》 The Works of Mencius

《论语》The Confucian Analects



学而时习之，不亦说乎？

It is indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and, as you go on acquiring, to put into practice what you have acquired.

有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎?

A greater pleasure still it is when friends of congenial minds come from afar to seek you because of your attainments.

温故而知新，可以为师矣。

If a man will constantly go over what he has acquired and keep continually adding to it new acquirements, he may become a teacher of men.

学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。

Study without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without study is perilous.

君子周而不比，小人比而不周。

A wise man is impartial, not neutral. A fool is neutral but not impartial.

知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。

To know what it is that you know, and to know what it is that you do not know, —that is understanding.

辜鸿铭 译

《孟子》The Works of Mencius



故天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨、饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。

Thus when Heaven is going to give a great responsibility to someone, it first makes his mind endure suffering. It makes his sinews and bones experience toil, and his body to suffer hunger. It inflicts him with poverty and knocks down everything he tries to build. In this way Heaven stimulates his mind, stabilizes his temper and develops his weak points.

爱人者，人恒爱之；敬人者，人恒敬之。

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

理雅各 译