《智慧书·第五辑·二〇一至二五〇》第30则
Open your Eyes betimes. Not all that see have their eyes open, nor do all those see that look. To come up to things too late is more worry than help. Some just begin to see when there is nothing more to see: they pull their houses about their ears before they come to themselves. It is difficult to give sense to those who have no power of will, still more difficult to give energy to those who have no sense. Those who surround them play with them a game of blind man's buff, making them the butts of others, and because they are hard of hearing, they do not open their eyes to see. There are often those who encourage such insensibility on which their very existence depends. Unhappy steed whose rider is blind: it will never grow sleek.
注释摘要
这一则的标题和正文原本是一句话的两半：“趁早睁开眼睛”——因为不是所有能看见的人都睁了眼，也不是所有在瞧的人真能看见。葛拉西安在这里区分的是生理上的视力和心智上的知觉。西班牙语原文用词上，他很可能使用了 ver（看见）与 mirar（瞧、注视）的对立：后者只是把目光投向某物，前者才是真正洞悉其性质。概念主义文体的偏好正是在这样极短的句子内制造词义分岔，让一…