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XX. Consider them through all actions and occupations, of their lives: as when they eat, and when they sleep: when they are in the act of necessary exoneration, and when in the act of lust. Again, when they either are in their greatest exultation; and in the middle of all their pomp and glory; or being angry and displeased, in great state and majesty, as from an higher place, they chide and rebuke. How base and slavish, but a little while ago, they were fain to be, that they might come to this; and within a very little while what will be their estate, when death hath once seized upon them.

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白话

要透过人们一生的各种活动和营生去看他们:吃饭、睡觉、排泄、行淫;得意到极点、排场最盛的时候;发怒不满、摆出威严从高处训人的时候。想想不久前他们为了爬到这一步,不得不多么卑微奴颜;再想想死神一伸手,很快又会是什么光景。这样看不是要鄙视人,而是剥掉光环,看清人人都有同样的身体需求和结局,从而少被权势排场唬住,也少为自己的一时得失忘形。

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马可·奥勒留身居皇位,常用这种“透视法”提醒自己:权势荣耀与身体本能、死亡结局本是一体。

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今日一问

我今天羡慕或畏惧的那个人,若看他吃饭睡觉的样子,我的心态会有什么不同?

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