智慧书「200」——身体需要呼吸，心灵也有渴望。如果你拥有一切，那么一切终将幻灭，让你不再满意。把一些愿望留到以后去满足。过度的幸福具有毁灭性。希望熄灭，恐惧便会滋生。
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把一些愿望留到以后去满足。
这样，你就不会乐极生悲。
Leave Something to wish for,
so as not to be miserable from very happiness.
身体需要呼吸，心灵也有渴望。
如果你拥有一切，那么一切终将幻灭，让你不再满意。
The body must respire and the soul aspire.
If one possessed all, all would bedisillusion and discontent.
即使是求知，也应留些东西以后再去探索，从而激起好奇与希望。
Even in knowledge there should be alwayssomething left to know in order to arouse curiosity and excite hope.
过度的幸福具有毁灭性。
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
帮助他人要讲策略：不要让他们完全满意。
如果他们再无渴望，一切将变得可怕，快乐之上却无欢愉。
In giving assistance it is a piece ofpolicy not to satisfy entirely.
If there is nothing left to desire, thereis everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
当希望熄灭时，恐惧便会滋生。
When desire dies, fear is born.
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