《沉思录·卷七·痛苦与忍受》第29条
Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done (viii. 29).
注释摘要
这不是一个温和的建议，而是一连串急促的、军事命令般的内心指令。七个短句像七次挥剑，每一击都砍向内心骚动的不同来源。奥勒留在为自己做一场紧急手术。 开头两句指向同一个根源：想象力。斯多葛派认识到，让我们痛苦的不是事情本身，而是我们对事情的判断，而判断首先以内心形象的方式浮现，这就是想象。一块面包扔进鱼塘，一句伤人的话飘进耳朵，客观事实到此为止，但想象力立刻接…