《沉思录·卷七·痛苦与忍受》第34条
About fame: look at the minds [of those who seek fame], observe what they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands; so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.
注释摘要
奥勒留在这一条札记里对名声的审视异常冷静，几乎不带修辞温度。前半句是一个命令式的心理练习：去看那些追求名声的人，观察他们内在的支配原则究竟是什么质地，他们趋避什么，又把什么当作值得追逐的好事。这实际上是把斯多葛派判断善恶的标尺径直伸进他人的灵魂内部——按照这个学派的严格区分，唯一真正的好是美德，唯一的恶是道德上的败坏，两者都只发生在人的主宰能力之内。因此，…