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So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt?
那么，你们作为个人，又学到了什么样的智慧呢？
First, in fact, keep learning. Always be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.
事实上，首先就是要不断学习。要时刻至尊被迎接新的生活、不断思考、积极行动。
When Buddha was asked, near the end of his life, to describe his secret, he answered bluntly: "I'm awake".
佛陀临终前，人们要求他讲述成为圣人的秘诀，他坦率地说：“因为我头脑清醒”。
So be awake.Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it.
所以，要保持头脑清醒。要了解传统的智慧，但要准备改变它。
Feel as well as analyse; use your instinct alongside your reason. Calculate too much and you will miscalculate.
不仅要学会分析，还要学着用心感受。直觉与推理并存，因为算计太多难免会出错。
Be prepared to fail as well as to succeed, and realise it is failure not success that defines character.
不仅要接受成功，也要准备经历失败。因为是失败而非成功塑造了性格。
I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.
多年来我为了立足政坛一直不断努力，但却屡遭失败，以致我几乎想要放弃。
I know you're thinking: I should have.
我知道你们一定在想：我本来就应该放弃。
Sir Paul McCartney reminded me that the first record company the Beatles approached rejected them as a band no-one would want to listen to.
保罗·麦卡特尼先生提醒我，甲壳虫乐队联系的第一家唱片公司把他们拒之门外，理由是没人想听他们这样的音乐。
Be good to people on your way up because you never know if you will meet them again on your way down.
当你事业顺利的时候要善待他人，因为你永远不会知道，你遭遇挫折的时候是否会遇到他们。
Judge someone by how they treat those below them not those above them.
评价一个人，要看他们怎样对待比自己地位低的人，而不是看他们怎样对待比自己高的人。
Be a firm friend not a fair-weather friend.
要做一个可靠的朋友，而不是靠不住的酒肉朋友。
It is your friendships, including those friends you made here at Yale, at this time, that sustain and enrich the human spirit.
是友谊，包括现在你们在耶鲁大学结交的朋友之间的友谊，维持并丰富人类的精神。
