Men, at some time, are masters of their fates.
人怎样死不重要，而在于怎样生。
If matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
人之将死，其言也善。
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
荣华富贵只是过眼烟云。
Glory, honor, wealth, and rank, such things are nothing but shadows.
荣誉就是生命。
My honor is my life.
荣誉誓与生命共存亡。
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
如果乐观，全世界跟你一道笑；如果悲观，你只能向隅自泣。
Laugh, and the world laugh with you; weep, and you weep alone.
如果你懂得怎样利用生命，生命就是长的。
Life is long if you know how o use it.
弱者等待机会，强者创造机会。
Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it.
三件事情最困难：保守秘密，忘却伤害和善用精力。
The three things most difficult are, to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of labor.
三十年河东，三十年河西。人生贵贱无常。
A dog has his day.
A man has his hour, and a dog has his day.
Every dog has his day.
Every dog has his day, and every man his hour.
Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well.
The wind keeps not always in one quarter.
The wind does not always blow from the same quarter.
The worse luck now, the better another time.
Today a king, tomorrow nothing.
Today a man, tomorrow a mouse.
三岁看老。
As the boy, so the man.
As / Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
三岁看老，一天看早。
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
傻人有傻福。
Fools have fortune.
Fortune favors fools.
God sends fortune to fools.
善于利用幸福者，方为幸福人。
Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.
善于利用一切机会。
All is grist that comes to his mill.
上贼船容易下贼船难。
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
It is easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again.
It is easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again.
少年惯做的事，老年常想起。
What youth is used to, age remembers.
少年时求索，中年时实践，老年时享受。
The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
少时辛苦老来逸。
Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age.
少壮不努力，老大徒悲伤。
A lazy youth, a lousy（极坏的）age.
A young idler, an old beggar.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
An idle youth , a needy age.
He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old.
Idle young, needy age / old.
If you lie upon roses when young, you’ll lie upon thorns when old.
If you don’t plant bamboo this year, how can you have bamboo shoots next year?
If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night.
Lazy youth makes lousy age.
舍生取义。
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like this.
涉世深者最知世态炎凉。蹚河人才知水深浅。
He knows the water best who has waded through it.
涉世于不了解的社会阶层是不安全的。
It is no safe wading in an unknown water.
生不行善，死同禽兽。
He dies like a beast who has done no good while he lives.
生活并不全是吃喝玩乐。
Life is not all beer and skittles（游戏）.
生活若顺利，情场易失意。
Lucky in life, unlucky in love.
生活是美好的。
Life is sweet.
生活是由平凡的小事组成的。
Life is made up of little things.
生活像买彩票，世事难料。
Life is a lottery.
生活让笨蛋哭，让智者笑。
Life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry.
生活无目标，犹如航海没有指南针。
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生命的长度在于充实
Life is long if it is full.
生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的，而不是本身的长短。
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的意义不在于长寿，而在于其价值。
It is not how long, but how well we live.
生命对幸福者太短，对痛苦者太长。
Life that is too short for the happy is to long for the miserable.
生命只有一次，但是只要活得好，一次足矣。
We only live once, but if we work it right once is enough.
生死无常。
Death keeps no calendar.
生死由命，定宿难逃。
Every bullet has its billet（职位）.
生性乐天，左右逢源。
A merry heart goes all the way.
生于安乐者常死于贫贱。
He that lives in court dies up on straw.
失去自由便失去一切。
Who loses liberty lwho has loses all.
Shohas lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.
失足者可以寻找回来的世界。
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
使自己有益于他人。
Make yourself necessary to someone.
世界对理性的人来说，是出喜剧，对感性的人来说，是出悲剧。
The world is comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
世界上最有用的学问就是告诉我们怎样死得其所。
The most useful learning in the world is that which teaches us how to die well
世界是个舞台，人人都是演员。
All the world’s a stage, and all the man and women merely players.
是金子总要发亮的。
Gold remains gold, though it lies in the mud.
If a diamond be thrown into the mire, it is a diamond still.
是生还是死，是一个值得考虑的问题。
To be or not to be, that is the question.
收获是对痛苦的最好回报。
The gains will quit the pains.
寿命再长，难免一死。
They that live longest must die at last.
谁笑到最后谁笑得最好。
All is well that ends well.
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
He laughs best who laughs last.
He who laughs last laughs best.
Let them / those laugh that win.
Who laughs last laughs best.
谁也不愿意死。
There is nobody will go to hell for company.
顺境戒骄，逆境戒躁。
In good fortune, prudence; in ill fortune, patience.
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
顺境使人快乐，逆境使人思索。
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
顺境中易掌握生活的方向。
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
死得高尚，一生光荣。
A fair death honors the whole life.
死人不会揭人隐私。
Dead man tells no tales.
死人没有朋友。
Friendless is the dead.
死亡将带走一切，不必患得患失。
The ebb（潮落）will fetch off what the tide（潮汐）brings in.
死亡来临时是不可抗拒的。
Death when it comes will have no denial.
死亡面前，人人平等。
All men are on an equality while they are asleep.
Death is the grand leveler.
Death levels all men.
The end makes all equal.
The way to heaven is alike in every place.
死亡藐视医生。
Death defies the doctor.
死亡面前，贫富平等。
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
死亡使我们解脱不幸。
Death frees us from ills.
虽然失去了一次机会，还会有很多机会。海中好鱼取不尽。
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
随波逐流者安。
Sail with the wind and tide.
随遇而安。
Any port in a storm.
Being on sea, sail, being on land, settle.
If we cannot get what we like, we have to like what we can get.
贪食者为吃而活，智者为活而吃。
A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to live.
贪图安逸，难获荣誉。
Honor and ease are seldom bedfellows.
天生我才必有用。
A man of great talents will surely be given important assignments.
A stone that is fit for the wall is not left in the way.
天无绝人之路。