《沉思录·卷一·家学渊源（谢师录）》第8条
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness; and to see clearly in a living example that the same man can be both most resolute and yielding, and not peevish in giving his instruction; and to have had before my eyes a man who clearly considered his experience and his skill in expounding philosophical principles as the smallest of his merits; and from him I learned how to receive from friends what are esteemed favors, without being either humbled by them or letting them pass unnoticed.
注释摘要
在斯多葛哲学的体系里，“自由意志”不是指随心所欲地想做什么就做什么，而是指一种内心不受任何外在事物奴役的状态。阿波罗尼奥斯教给奥勒留的，首先就是这种意志的自由。斯多葛派认为，真正属于人的，只有我们内心的主宰能力，也就是做出判断、形成意愿的那一部分。财富、健康、名誉、甚至生命本身，都不完全由我们决定，它们被称作“身外之物”。如果一个人把自己的幸福寄托在这些东…