雙語智慧書·寧可同醉，而不獨醒

133．寧可同醉，而不獨醒
　　寧可同醉，而不獨醒。政治家如是說。如果眾人都瘋狂，你也不會比其他人更嚴重。獨自清醒在人看來，反而是愚蠢的。隨大流是十分重要的。大智若愚。我們必須與世人共存，而大部分人是十分愚蠢的。"想離群索居，你要么如神，要么似獸。"但是，我要修改這條格言，并宣稱：寧可一起明智，也不獨自愚蠢。有些人特立獨行，只是在追逐空幻之物。


133．Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
　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 are some too who seek to be original by seeking chimeras.