《沉思录·卷四·退隐于自己的心》第18条
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure; or, as Agathon+ says, look not round at the depraved morals of others, but run straight along the line without deviating from it.
注释摘要
一个人要避免多少麻烦，只要他不去张望邻人说了什么、做了什么、想了什么，而只观看自己所做的，使它正义、纯洁。奥勒留在这里提出的是一个极其简单、又极其难以持守的心灵纪律：将注意力的范围收缩到自己的行为之上。他所关注的不是邻人的举动是否合乎道德，而是“我”是否仍在看着邻人。注视本身已经是偏离。斯多葛派将人的内在主宰能力视为唯一不受外在力量支配的领域，而这条纪律正…