《沉思录·卷一·家学渊源（谢师录）》第6条
From Diognetus, not to busy myself about trifling things, and not to give credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers about incantations and the driving away of daemons and such things; and not to breed quails [for fighting], nor to give myself up passionately to such things; and to endure freedom of speech; and to have become intimate with philosophy; and to have been a hearer, first of Bacchius, then of Tandasis and Marcianus; and to have written dialogues in my youth; and to have desired a plank bed and skin, and whatever else of the kind belongs to the Grecian discipline.
注释摘要
这一条的核心是精神生活的聚焦与提纯。马可·奥勒留从狄俄革涅特身上学到的东西，几乎可以概括为一个转向：把注意力从琐碎的事物、虚假的奇迹、庸俗的热忱中抽回，转向某种更严肃、更质朴的东西。他不是在主张禁欲或反智，而是在做一种斯多葛式的分辨——哪些事情真正值得一个理性存在者花费心力，哪些事情只是在耗散你的专注力。 他说“不要为琐事忙碌”，这在斯多葛的体系里不是一句…