你必须控制并导引你的情绪而非摧毁它，况且摧毁情绪是一件不可能的事情。情绪就像河流一样，你可以筑一道堤 防把它挡起来，并在控制和导引之下排放它，但却不能永远抑 制它，否则那道堤防迟早会崩溃，并造成大灾难。

You must control and direct your emotions, not abolish them. Besides, abolition¹ would be animossible task. Emotions are like a river. Theire power can be dammed up and released under control and direction, but is cannot be held forever in check. Sooner or later the dam will burst, unleashing² catastrophic destruction.

你的消极心态同样也可被控制和导引，积极心态和自律 可去除其中有害的部分，而使这些消极心态能为目标贡献力 量。有的时候恐惧和生气会激发出更彻底的行动，但是在你 释放消极情绪(以及积极情绪)之前务必要让你的理性为它们 做一番检验，缺乏理性的情绪必然是一位可怕的敌人。

Your negative emotions can also be controlled and directed. PMA and self-discipline can remove their harmful effects and make them serve sonstructive pirposes. Sometimes fear and anger will inspire intense action. But you must always submit your negative emotions--and you positive ones--to the examination of your reson before releasing the. Emotion without reson is a dreadful enemy.

是什么力量使得情绪和理性之间能够达到平衡呢?是意 志力或自尊心(我将在以下做更详细的说明)。自律会教导你 的意志力作为理性和情绪的后盾，并强化二者的表现强度。

What faculty³ provides the crucial balance between emotions and reason? It is your willpower, or ego⁴, a subject which will be explored in more detail below. Self-dicipline will teach you to therow your willpower behind either reson or emotion and amplify⁵ the intesity of their exprssion.

你的感情和理智都需要一位主宰，而在你的自尊心里就 可发现这个主宰，然而只有你在发挥你的自律精神时，自尊心 才会扮演好这个角色，如果没有了自律，你的理智和感情便会 随心所欲地进行战争，战争结果当然是你会受到严重的伤害。

Both your heart and your mind need a master, and they can find the master in your ego. However, your ego will fill thei role only if you use self-discipline. In the absence of self-dicipline, your mind and heart will fight their battles as they please. In this situation the person within whose mind the fight is carried out often gets badly hurt.