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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯：自助论·摘录 148
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
Annoyed by the enemies his success had provoked and whom he was unable to conciliate, he determined, at the end of less than two years’ labour in Paris, to return to Rome. Again settled there in his humble dwelling on Mont Pincio, he employed himself diligently in the practice of his art during the remaining years of his life, living in great simplicity and privacy. Though suffering much from the disease which afflicted him, he solaced himself by study, always striving after excellence. “In growing old,” he said, “I feel myself becoming more and more inflamed with the desire of surpassing myself and reaching the highest degree of perfection.” Thus toiling, struggling, and suffering, Poussin spent his later years. He had no children; his wife died before him; all his friends were gone: so that in his old age he was left absolutely alone in Rome, so full of tombs, and died there in 1665, bequeathing to his relatives at Andeleys the savings of his life, amounting to about 1000 crowns; and leaving behind him, as a legacy to his race, the great works of his genius.
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定位：Excerpt 148 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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成功招来的敌人让他烦恼，又无法和解，于是他在巴黎干了不到两年，就决定回罗马。他重新安顿在平乔山上的简陋住所，余生勤勉作画，生活极简、深居简出。虽然病痛折磨，他以学习自慰，始终追求卓越。他说：“越老，我越觉得自己被一种超越自己、达到最高完美的渴望点燃。”就这样劳作、挣扎、受苦，普桑度过晚年。他没有孩子，妻子先他而去，朋友也都走了，晚年孤身留在满是坟墓的罗马，1665年去世，把约一千克朗积蓄留给安德利的亲属，把天才之作留给世人。
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斯迈尔斯《自助》记普桑晚年回罗马后的生活与心境，突出其终身精进。
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