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If you would have your children and your wife and your friends to live for ever, you are silly; for you would have the things which are not in your power to be in your power, and the things which belong to others to be yours. So if you would have your slave to be free from faults, you are a fool; for you would have badness not to be badness, but something else. But if you wish not to fail in your desires, you are able to do that. Practise then this which you are able to do. He is the master of every man who has the power over the things which another person wishes or does not wish, the power to confer them on him or to take them away. Whoever then wishes to be free let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
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定位：Excerpt 84 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
如果你希望孩子、妻子、朋友永远活着，那是犯傻，因为你想把不在你能力范围内的事变成你能控制的，把属于别人的东西当成自己的。同样，你想让奴隶不犯错，也是愚蠢，因为你想让坏不存在。但如果你希望自己的愿望不落空，这你办得到。那就练习你能控制的部分。谁掌握了别人想要或不想要的东西的给予和剥夺权，谁就是那个人的主人。所以，想自由，就别去渴望或躲避任何依赖别人的东西；不守这条，就还是奴隶。
上下文
爱比克泰德反复强调斯多葛派的核心区分：能控制的（自己的意愿）与不能控制的（外在人事）。
健康板块的原文与白话解读仅供阅读学习，不构成医疗建议。
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你目前最想控制却控制不了的一件事是什么？你能转而控制自己的什么？
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