每日斯多葛主義修行76-78

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76. 「When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don』t then make a show of it, or protest, or view him with suspicion or as plotting against you. And yet you keep an eye on him, not as an enemy or with suspicion, but with a healthy avoidance. You should act this way with all things in life. We should give a pass to many things with our fellow trainees. For, as I』ve said, it』s possible to avoid without suspicion or hate.」

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.20

在和朋友辯論時，如果他/她觸及你的痛處，或者激烈攻擊你，不要表現出不滿，也不要抗議，也不要疑心他/她是故意針對你。但是對這樣的人要多留些心眼，並保持一定的健康距離。用同樣的態度對待生活中的其他事情。對身邊的事情多些理解，不用太放在心上。因為我們完全可以做到不懷疑慮和恨意去避免我們想要避免的人或事。

— Marcus Aurelius, 沉思錄, 6.20

77. 「Turn it inside out and see what it is like—what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.」

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.21

設身處地去思考這些問題：當我們年老，多病，或者浪費才華和光陰的時候，是什麼樣子的。人生苦短，讚譽過後，誰又還記得誰。而那些被後世紀念的，人們只是了解他們的一部分（而且每個人了解的可能都不一樣），又有誰真正了解他們的全部？更何況地球只是宇宙中那麼小的一粒塵埃。

— Marcus Aurelius, 沉思錄, 8.21

78. 「Tantalus: The highest power is—

Thyestes: No power, if you desire nothing.」

— Seneca, Thyestes, 440

Tantalus:最堅不可摧的權力是—

Thyestes: —無欲則剛。

— Seneca, 梯厄斯忒斯, 440

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