015 #article# 2014届杜克大学法学院校友高西庆演讲节选
在刚刚结束的美国杜克大学法学院2014届毕业典礼上，86届毕业生高西庆校友深情回忆了他年轻时修铁路不忘学习英语，后来到Duke法学院求学住在图书馆，再后来回国建立中国资本市场的人生经历，并给毕业生们提出了建议：保持开放的心态，肯吃苦、不过分追求物质生活，最重要的是愿意尝试别人没有走过的道路。不忘初心，方得始终。
I was going to speak today about the necessity for an open-mind as you approach new opportunities, new environment and new paradigm, the need to have stamina in times of difficulty and to not be afraid to take the road less travelled. But I believe most of you know this or you wouldn’t be here today in the first place.
我今天本来想跟大家讲讲未来当你们面对新的机会、新的环境以及新的模式时保持开放心态的必要性，以及遇到困难时应该怎样保持坚持不懈的努力和拥有另辟蹊径的勇气。可是，我相信在座的大部分人都已经十分明白这些道理，否则你们不会取得今天的成绩。
Why do I want to tell you the boring story of a personal life? Because I can't help offering you my advice, having made so many mistakes and suffered so many detours. Here are the few things I learned in life in the vain hope that you would avoid them.
为什么我想向你们讲述我自己没有多大意思的人生经历？因为我在犯过如此多错误、走过无数次弯路之后，忍不住想提供给你们一些我的建议。下面就是我的一点人生体会，希望你们能够有所感悟，避免走我所走过的弯路。
1. Different views, different people, different culture and different ideology may not necessarily a bad thing. They just teach you to be more tolerant and open minded. Vive la difference, as the French would say.
不同的思想、不同的人、不同的文化以及不同的意识形态或许并不是一件坏事。他们只是在教你更加宽容，保持更加开放的心态。就像法国人说的那样，Vive la difference（差别万岁）。
2. Taking hardship is not necessarily a bad thing, it may pay in the long run. Of course in the long run we will all be dead, as Maynard Keynes said. And that's why we need the next suggestion.
吃苦或许不是一件坏事，总有一天你会获得回报。当然凯恩斯也说过：从长远来看，我们都会死的。但这也就是为什么我们需要下一个建议。
3. Taking the road less travelled is not necessarily a bad thing, it just makes your life much more interesting. Let's try to live an interesting and significant life.
另辟蹊径走自己的路或许不是一件坏事，这只是意味着我们的生活会更加精彩。让我们尝试去过一种精彩并且有意义的生活。
4. Setting high material demands in this world today is not necessarily a good thing, as it may keep you from realizing your ideals or keeping your vision.
在当今社会，对物质生活的过分追求或许不是一件好事。因为这将使你远离梦想，不能开拓你的视野。
I want to leave you today with the words of the great American poet, Max Ehrmann because he said it infinitely better than I can. Hope you guys can remember this as you go forth.
最后，我想送给你们伟大的美国诗人Max Ehrmann的诗篇，他讲得比我好多了。我希望你们在前行的道路上，能够记住这首诗。
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity anddisenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentlewith yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with universe, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
在嘈杂和匆忙中，平静地前行吧，
也别忘了在寂静中，能找到多好的安宁。
可以的话，尽量不放弃原则而与所有人和睦相处。
细语清晰地说出你的肺腑之言，也聆听别人的说话，
别人的话纵然又枯燥又无知，总会有他们的故事。
避开大声说话和好斗的人；他们是扰乱心性的人。
不要跟其他人比较，否则可能变得虚荣自负或忿忿不平，
因为一定有人比你伟大，也一定有人比你渺小。
享受计划，也享受成就。
无论自己的事业有多卑微，维持对它的兴趣；
在一生多变的命运中，它是你真正拥有的东西。
谨慎处理生意，因为这世界充斥着欺诈。
但是，不要因此而看不见人间美德；
很多人为崇高理想而奋斗，生命到处都有英勇的事迹。
做你自己。
尤其不要虚情假意。但也不要把爱视为虚伪；
因为尽管生命有时枯燥乏味、有时令人迷醉，
爱，却如青草般日久常在。
不轻视因年老而获得的阅历，
并得体地舍弃年轻时拥有的东西。
培育心灵上的力量，以面对突然而来的不幸。
但不要杞人忧天以致心神不宁。
众多的恐惧，源自疲乏和孤独。
要既不踰矩，又善待自己。
你是宇宙的孩子，身份不次于树木和星星；
身处这里是你的权利。
不管你是否明白它的奥秘，
毫无疑问宇宙在按其规律展现自己。
因此，不管在你心中宇宙是什么模样，和他和睦相处吧。
也不管你怎样劳累和胸怀大志，在生命的烦嚣和困惑中，
要保持心灵上的安宁。
不管经历了多少伪善、苦役、和破碎的梦，世界依然是美丽的。
要保持轻松开朗。要努力让自己快乐。