《沉思录·卷十二·此刻即全部》第26条
When thou art troubled about anything, thou hast forgotten this, that all things happen according to the universal nature; and forgotten this, that a man's wrongful act is nothing to thee; and further thou hast forgotten this, that everything which happens, always happened so and will happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence. And thou hast forgotten this too, that every man's intelligence is a god and is an efflux of the Deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a man's own, but that his child and his body and his very soul came from the Deity; forgotten this, that everything is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this.
注释摘要
你感到烦恼的那一刻，其实已经遗忘了好几个在斯多葛派看来至关紧要的真相。奥勒留在这里不是要温和地开导你，他像是在清点账目一般，把你因为情绪波动而抛诸脑后的事情一条条陈列出来。这与其说是安慰，不如说是一种认知诊断。烦恼之所以能侵袭你，不是因为它本身有多么强大的力量，而仅仅是因为你的记忆和注意力没有牢牢驻守在这些最基本的宇宙秩序和人的本分之上。 他列出的第一个遗…