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爱比克泰德:论说集与手册·摘录 3

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Only consider at what price you sell your own will: if for no other reason, at least for this, that you sell it not for a small sum. But that which is great and superior perhaps belongs to Socrates and such as are like him. Why then, if we are naturally such, are not a very great number of us like him? Is it true then that all horses become swift, that all dogs are skilled in tracking footprints? What then, since I am naturally dull, shall I, for this reason, take no pains? I hope not. Epictetus is not superior to Socrates; but if he is not inferior, this is enough for me; for I shall never be a Milo, and yet I do not neglect my body; nor shall I be a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property; nor, in a word, do we neglect looking after anything because we despair of reaching the highest degree.

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白话

别轻易出卖自己的意志,哪怕只卖一点也亏。伟大属于苏格拉底那样的人,但不必因达不到最高就放弃努力。不是每匹马都跑得快,不是每只狗都善追踪,可天生迟钝不是不努力的借口。我成不了大力士米洛,但仍锻炼身体;成不了富豪克罗伊斯,但仍打理财产。总之,不因绝望于顶峰就忽视任何事。

上下文

爱比克泰德用比喻鼓励学生:不必成为最伟大的人,但要在自己位置上尽力。

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今日一问

你因为觉得自己“不是那块料”而放弃了哪些本可以努力的事?

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