09) Do Not Think of Your Faults

You will find it less easy (=hard)

to uproot faults than choke them

by gaining virtues.

Do not think of your faults,

still less of others' faults.

In every person {who comes near you}

look for (=find) what is good and strong:

honor that, rejoice in it, as you can,

try to imitate it, and your faults will drop

off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
 

08) Man Is The Creator of Circumstances

 

Man is not the slave, 

so much as he is the creator,

of circumstances;

and <by the exercise of his free will>,

he can direct his actions

<so that> their actions shall be

productive of good rather than evil.

07) The Great Use of School Education

 

     

    The great use (of school education)

is not <so much to teach> you 

many things <as to teach> you 

the art (of learning);

<so that> you may apply that art

<in the afterlife<< for yourselves>,

and may apply on any matter

{to which you choose 

to turn your mind in it}.

06)The Civilization of Honey-Bees

      

     In the world, there is no creature

{with which man has surrounded

himself }{that seems so much 

like a product of civilization,

so much like the result of development

on special lines and in special fields,

as the honney-bee}.

     Indeed, a colony of bees, 

<with their neatness and love of order,

their peace of love, their public-

spiritedness, their thrift, and

their division of labor,

their complex economics>,

seems as far removed

<from a condition of rude nature>

as does a walled city or a cathedral town.

05) Forever Humanitarians ?

 

     There are many people {who believe

themselves to be fundamentally humane},

and actually, behave as humanitarians,

but who, <if changed circumstance offered

occasions for being cruel>, <especially if

the cruelty were represented as a means

to some noble end>, would give away

to the temptation with enthusiasm.

Hence comes the necessity of avoiding war,

whether international or civil.

04) Hearing Our Faults From Ourselves

      <Though>we do not like to hear our faults

from others, it does not mean that we are not conscious of them. 

<The more> conscious we are of them, 

<the less> we like to hear of them

 from others, and <the more> we like

to hear from ourselves.

03)The Slave of Machine 機器的奴隸

 

     In this age of machinery, 在這個機器化的年代

when the man 當人類

is getting less and less important, 正在变得愈來愈不重要的時候

and the machine more and more important而機器却愈來愈重要,

the man人類, this slave of the machine這種機器的奴隸, is always總是

in <such> a hurry在如此忽忙地 to get somewhere else趕往某地

<that以致>he never stops他從未停下來 to think himself想想他自己

whether是否 the place he is going to他將要去的地方

will give him 將會給他<more>happiness 更多的幸福

<than比之

>the place he is already in他現處之地.

02)The Best Men in Life

 

     The men {whom I have seen succeed best in life}

have always been cheerful and hopeful men,

{who went about their business <with a smile>

<on their face>, and took the changes

and chances (of this mortal life),

facing rough and smooth alike

<as it cam>.

01)Greater Works of Art

 

     Never has the world seen greater works

of art than those (given to it by the ancient Greeks).

In fact, there are many men who think

 that <in all the years><since their time>

we have never again risen to a hight

so lofty as that (of the best)

<among the great Greek artists>.

<in all years since their time>.