A man has only one destiny.
NO 1
Any profession was worthy of respect to men who for centuries earned bread by the sweat of their brows.
千百年來，只要憑賣力氣，流汗水換飯吃，任何職業都是值得尊敬的。
NO 2
The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.
柯里昂教父經常這樣教導：如果一個人要慷慨，那他就必須把這種慷慨表現得充滿感情。
He gave the baker a Di Nobili cigar and a glass of yellow Strega and put his hand on the men’s shoulder to urge him on.
他遞給麪包師傅一根“高貴牌”雪茄煙，一杯“振奮牌”果子露，還把手搭在他的肩膀上鼓勵他說下去。
That was the mark of the Don’s humanity. He knew from bitter experience what courage it took to ask a favor from a fellow man.
這就是老頭子的人情味的一種表示。他從自己辛酸的經歷中體會到：大家同樣是人，要一個人央求另一個人辦一件事，這可需要多大的勇氣啊。
NO 3
Arctic explorers who leave caches of food scattered on the route to the North Pole, Just in case they may need them someday.
北極探險家在去北極的路上，沿途總要把食物在地窖裏埋起來，就是爲了預防有一天走到那裏可能需要食物。
That’s my father’s favors. Someday he’ll be at each one of those people’s houses and they had better come across.
這就是我父親爲別人做好事的道理。他有一天也可能有事相求，要登門拜訪他們，所以最好他們能先過來拜訪下我們。
NO 4
The Don helped those in misfortune whose misfortune he had partly created.
柯里昂教父一方面在幫助那些陷於不幸的人們，但另一方面那些人的不幸一定程度上卻是他造成的。
Not perhaps out of cunning or planning but because of his variety of interests or perhaps because of the nature of the universe, the interlinking of good and evil, natural of itself.
這既不是出於陰謀詭計，也不是出於刻意安排，而是由於他利益的多樣性，或者說是宇宙的自然法則，善與惡的相互滲透乃是自然本身的法則。
強大你自身，是保護自己的終極之道。
NO 5
Don’t hate your enemy, or you will make wrong judgment.
不要憎恨你的敵人，否則你將做出錯誤的判斷。
NO 6
Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking.
從不要把自己的真實想法暴露給家族以外的任何人。
Don’t let anybody know what you are thinking.
不要讓任何人知道你在想什麼。
NO 7
If there’s one thing the old man hammered into me, it’s never to do a thing like that, to let other people know there’s a split of opinion in the Family.
如果說老爸對我有什麼教導，使我永遠不忘的話，那就是永遠不能做一件蠢事：讓外人知道我們家族內部有意見分歧。
NO 8
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
離你的朋友近些，但離你的敵人要更近，這樣你才能更瞭解他。
NO 9
Don’t let women dictate your actions and they’re not competent in this world, though certainly they’ll be saint in heaven while we men burn in hell.、
不要讓女人左右你的行爲，並且她們在這個世界上並沒有這樣的資格，儘管可以肯定她們會上天堂，當聖人，而男人要下地獄，受火燒。
NO 10
He never asks a second favor when he’s been refused the first.
當第一次請求幫助被拒絕後，他絕不會再問第二次。
NO 11
You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance gonna bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me? I forgot the vengeance of my son…..
你說復仇。復仇會把你的兒子帶回你身邊嗎？還是我的孩子？我忘掉爲我兒子復仇.....
butI ‘m a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot in the head by a police officer or if he should hang himself in the jail cell or if he’s struck by a bolt of lightning.
但，我是個迷信的人，若是他不幸發生意外，或被警察開槍打死，或在牢裏上吊，或是他被閃電擊中。
then I’m gonna blame some of the people in this room. And that I do not forgive.
那我會怪罪這個房間裏的每一個人,到那時候我就不會再客氣了。
NO 12
Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never bea real man.
你經常跟家人呆在一起嗎？不錯。因爲不經常與家人呆在一起的男人，永遠也成不了真正的男人！
NO 13
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless. But not men.
我費了一生的精力，試圖不讓自己變得十分粗心。女人和小孩子們可以很粗心，但男人不會。
NO 14
Everything I do with my power, including something criminal, I just want to protect my family and my friends .
我以我的力量所做的一切事情，包括一些罪惡，只是爲了保護我的家人和我的朋友。
NO 15
Friendship can build a solid defense.
友誼可以築起一道堅實的防線。
My feelings were wounded but I am not that sort of person who thrusts his friendship on those who do not value it or on those who think me of little account.
我傷了感情了，但是我這個人並不把自己的友誼強加於那些不重視友誼的人，那些認爲我無足輕重的人。
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government; it is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn’t have to ask me to help.
友誼就是一切。友誼比天賦還重要。朋友比政府還重要。朋友簡直等於自家人，永遠不要忘記這一點。如果你用朋友的友誼築起一道防線，你也就不會相求於你的教父了。
NO 16
Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society.
邁克·柯里昂破天荒地第一次悟出一個道理，爲什麼像他父親那樣的人，甘願當盜竊犯和謀殺犯而不願意當合法社會的守法公民。
The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.
貧窮，恐懼，屈辱，這些東西太可怕了，對任何一個有骨氣的人來說，都是難以忍受的。
NO 17
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
如果生活告訴了我們什麼，歷史教育了我們什麼，那就是你可以殺了任何人。
NO 18
All our people are businessmen. Their loyalty is based on that. One thing I learned from Pop was trying to think as people around you think. On that basis, anything is possible.
與我們打交道的都是生意人。他們忠誠是建立在利益至上的。我從爸爸那裏學到的一點，那就是揣摩周圍人的想法，以他們的立場去思考。在生意的基礎上，一切皆有可能。
NO 19
You make the choice, and this is your price.
你做出了這個決定，這是你的代價。
NO 20
All my life, I, kept trying to go up in society where everything higher up was legal, straight. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. How in the hell does it end?
我一生都費盡心思地向上攀爬。之前我認爲上層的世界合法、磊落。可越往上攀爬，越覺險惡。這沒完沒了的勾心鬥角、爭執傾軋，什麼時候纔是個頭？
NO 21
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified.
有些事必須幹，你幹就是了，絕不高談闊論。不要去判斷要做的這些事是否合理。它們沒法判斷。
You just do them.Then you forget it.
你幹你的就是了，幹完之後就忘記。
NO 22
The Corlenone’s world, the physical beauty, the sexual power of women, carried not the slightest weight in worldly matters. It was a private affair.
在柯里昂家族眼裏，女人的肉體美，女人的性魅力，在人情世故中是無足輕重的私人小事。
Except, of course, in matters of marriage and family disgrace.
當然，除非涉及到婚姻和家庭榮辱。
NO 23
Aforce cleverly kept hidden, a man jealously guarding his true strength from public gaze.
平時不露鋒芒，生怕把自己的實力公開在光天化日之下。
Following the Don’s precept that a friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
緊守柯里昂教父的訓誨：讓朋友低估你的優點，讓敵人高估你的缺點。
NO 24
It’s not personal,it’s business.
不要把私人的感情帶到商界，這不利於發展，即使有解決不了的，靠你的能力，你的智慧來解決。
NO 25
It was part of the Don’s greatness that he profited from everything.
柯里昂的偉大，其中部分原因就是因爲他從每一件事情裏都得到了好處。
Don Corleone had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eye open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
柯里昂教父早就懂得：社會上常常會有突如其來的侮辱，那是必須忍受的。在這個世界上，常常會出現這樣的情況：最微不足道的人，如果他時刻留意的話，總會有機會向那些最不可一世的人報仇血恨。
It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
明白了這個道理，也就心平氣和了。正是因爲明白這個道理，老頭子才從來不喪失那種他所有朋友都歎服的謙虛謹慎的作風。