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塞内卡：塞内卡道德书简·摘录 21
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 财富 · 投资 · 成长
Some magistrates are made for money, and those commonly are bribed with money. We are all turned merchants, and look not into the quality of things, but into the price of them; for reward we are pious, and for reward again we are impious. We are honest so long as we may thrive upon it; but if the devil himself gives better wages, we change our party. Our parents have trained us up into an admiration of gold and silver, and the love of it is grown up with us to that degree that when we would show our gratitude to Heaven, we make presents of those metals. This it is that makes poverty look like a curse and a reproach; and the poets help it forward; the chariot of the sun must be all of gold; the best of times must be the Golden Age, and thus they turn the greatest misery of mankind into the greatest blessings.
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定位：Excerpt 21 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
塞涅卡批评社会把一切都变成交易：官员为钱当官，所以容易被钱收买；人人像商人，只看价格不看品质；有好处就虔诚，有好处就作恶；能获利就诚实，魔鬼出价高就换阵营。父母从小教我们崇拜金银，连感谢上天都送金银。结果贫穷被看成诅咒和耻辱，诗人还把太阳车写成全金、把最好的时代叫黄金时代，等于把人类最大的苦难包装成最大的福气。核心是：价值被价格取代，人就会随利益摇摆。做法是练习按事物本身的好坏来判断，而不是按它能换多少钱。
上下文
塞涅卡是古罗马斯多葛派哲学家，这段话出自他的道德随笔，批评当时罗马社会金钱至上、道德随利益摇摆的风气。
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今日一问
你做判断时，是先看这件事对不对、好不好，还是先看它能带来多少好处？
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