It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed.
  道德家們都認(rèn)為，追求幸福反而得不到幸福。只有當(dāng)你瘋狂地追求它時(shí)，這才成立。蒙特卡洛的賭徒們都在追求金錢，而他們中的大多數(shù)人卻失去了金錢，但是還有其他的追求金錢的方法，這些方法往往是成功的。
  So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.
  幸福也是如此。如果你以喝酒的方式來追求它，你就是忘記了它的存在。伊壁鳩魯追求它的方式是只生活在和諧的社會(huì)里，只吃干面包，在盛宴日再加上一點(diǎn)奶酪。
  His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life.
  他的方法在他的例子中被證明是成功的，但他是一個(gè)積極的人，大多數(shù)人都需要更有活力的東西。對(duì)大多數(shù)人來說，追求幸福，除非以各種方式加以補(bǔ)充，否則是過于抽象和理論性的，不足以作為個(gè)人的生活準(zhǔn)則。
  But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.
  但我認(rèn)為，無(wú)論你選擇什么樣的個(gè)人生活規(guī)則，它都不應(yīng)該與幸福不相容，除非是在罕見的英雄的情況下。
  Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
  人是一種動(dòng)物，他的幸福更多地取決于他的生理，而不是他喜歡的想法。這是一個(gè)卑微的結(jié)論，但我不能讓自己不相信。我確信，不快樂的商人每天步行六英里，而不是通過任何可以想象到的哲學(xué)轉(zhuǎn)變，會(huì)增加他們的幸福感。


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