《智慧书·第一辑·一至五十》第50则
Never lose Self-respect, or be too familiar with oneself. Let your own right feeling be the true standard of your rectitude, and owe more to the strictness of your own self-judgment than to all external sanctions. Leave off anything unseemly more from regard for your own self-respect than from fear of external authority. Pay regard to that and there is no need of Seneca's imaginary tutor.
注释摘要
这一则是全书第五十则，也是“第一辑”的收束之处。标题与正文展开的是同一个核心观念：自尊是人行为的内在法庭，人若真正建立起这个内在法庭，就不再需要外在的规训者。 先说标题。“Never lose Self-respect, or be too familiar with oneself”——这里“too familiar with oneself”在西语原文…