《智慧书·第三辑·一〇一至一五〇》第33则
Better Mad with the rest of the World than Wise alone. So say politicians. If all are so, one is no worse off than the rest, whereas solitary wisdom passes for folly. So important is it to sail with the stream. The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance, or the pretence of it. One has to live with others, and others are mostly ignorant. "To live entirely alone one must be very like a god or quite like a wild beast," but I would turn the aphorism by saying: Better be wise with the many than a fool all alone. There be some too who seek to be original by seeking chimeras.
注释摘要
这则格言的西班牙文标题原是“Más es loco de todos que cuerdo a solas”（宁可与众人一同疯狂，也不独自一人明智），正文开篇即说“这是政客们的话”，等于先标明出处——这句话并非葛拉西安首创，而是一句流传在十七世纪宫廷与政治圈子里的俗谚。他把这句俗谚接过来，翻来覆去拆解了一遍。标题与正文合起来，完整的意思是：在众人皆疯的时候…