59．要有完美的收场_智慧书（中英双语）

<h1>59．要有完美的收场</h1>

要有完美的收场。在造访命运之屋时，假如你从快乐之门进入，肯定会从悲伤之门离开，反之亦然。因此，做事时，你必须考虑如何收场。追求功德圆满的退场，胜过轰轰烈烈的开场。倒霉之人常常有极其幸运的开端，但结局却很悲惨。重要的不是一上场时大家的掌声——他们几乎对谁都如此——而是退场时大家对你的依恋。在人生的舞台上，很少有人被认为值得重新再来。幸运女神几乎不会送人到门口——她总是对初到之人热情似火，对将去之人冷若寒冰。

<h1>59．Finish off well</h1>

Finish off well. In the house of Fortune, if you enter by the gate of pleasure you must leave by that of sorrow and <i>vice versa</i>. You ought therefore to think of the finish, and attach more importance to a graceful exit than to apuse on entrance. It is themon lot of the unlucky to have a very fortunate outset and a very tragic end. The important point is not the vulgar apuse on entrance－thates to nearly all-but the general feeling at exit. Few in life are felt to deserve an encore. Fortune rarely apanies any one to the door: warmly as she may wee theing, she speeds but coldly the parting guest.