《智慧书·第一辑·一至五十》第1则
Everything is at its Acme; especially the art of making one's way in the world. There is more required nowadays to make a single wise man than formerly to make Seven Sages, and more is needed nowadays to deal with a single person than was required with a whole people in former times.
注释摘要
这则格言的西班牙原文标题是“Todo está ya en su punto”，正文与之连成一句，若逐字硬译可作“一切都已在其顶点”。葛拉西安一开篇不是描写一个静止的完美状态，而是说事物已达到了它此刻可能达到的最高饱满度，然后立刻把焦点收缩到一处：在这所有被推到极限的事物里，“为人处世之道”尤其被推到了极致。他用的对比句式是典型的概念主义手法，把两个看似不…