《沉思录·卷十·顺应整体》第13条
Inquire of thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep whether it will make any difference to thee if another does what is just and right. It will make no difference (vi. 32; viii. 55). Thou hast not forgotten, I suppose, that those who assume arrogant airs in bestowing their praise or blame on others are such as they are at bed and at board, and thou hast not forgotten what they do, and what they avoid, and what they pursue, and how they steal and how they rob, not with hands and feet, but with their most valuable part, by means of which there is produced, when a man chooses, fidelity, modesty, truth, law, a good daemon [happiness] (vii. 17)?
注释摘要
这段追问是奥勒留为自己定下的一个晨课。每天一醒，灵魂最容易还没整理好就被外面的世界拉着走——别人的言行、别人的评价、别人今天要做什么。所以他问自己：假如另一个人去做了正义的、正当的事，这会让我的内在状况产生什么差别吗？答案直截了当：没有。这不是冷淡，而是斯多葛派关于主宰域的根本区分。别人的道德选择，归根结底是他自己支配范围里的事，不在我的意志之内。我的善只…