《沉思录·卷二·写于格拉努阿河畔》第1条
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me; not [only] of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in [the same] intelligence and [the same] portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
注释摘要
这段开场白是马可·奥勒留每日清晨对自己的灵魂进行的一次预先调校。他清醒地预见到，今天走出营帐，必将遭遇多管闲事者、忘恩负义之人、傲慢者、狡诈者、嫉妒者与不合群的人。这并非厌世的抱怨，而是一种斯多葛派特有的认知预备。他将这些人一切令人不快的特质，归于一个根本原因：他们对于善与恶的无知。此处的“无知”并非指逻辑推演能力的缺失，而是在斯多葛派的严格意义上，指人未…