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塞内卡：塞内卡道德书简·摘录 23
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 领导 · 人性 · 健康 · 心性
I will never envy those that the people call great and happy. A sound mind is not to be shaken with a popular and vain applause; nor is it in the power of their pride to disturb the state of our happiness. An honest man is known now-a-days by the dust he raises upon the way, and it is become a point of honor to overrun people, and keep all at a distance; though he that is put out of the way may perchance be happier than he that takes it. He that would exercise a power profitable to himself, and grievous to nobody else, let him practice it upon his passion. They that have burnt cities, otherwise invincible, driven armies before them, and bathed themselves in human blood, after they have overcome all open enemies, they have been vanquished by their lust, by their cruelty, and without any resistance.
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定位：Excerpt 23 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
塞涅卡说，他绝不羡慕众人眼里的“伟大幸福”。健全的心不会被掌声动摇，别人的骄傲也扰不乱你的幸福。现在所谓体面，是看谁在路上扬起尘土、把别人挤开、保持距离；可被挤到一边的人也许比占道的人更幸福。想行使对自己有益、对别人无害的权力，就用在控制自己的情绪上。那些烧城、驱赶军队、浴血的人，打败了所有明处的敌人，最后却被自己的欲望和残忍打败，毫无抵抗。核心是：真正的力量是管住自己。做法是把征服欲转向自己的脾气和贪念。
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，批评罗马社会以排场和权势论高下的风气。
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你今天最想“赢”过别人的那件事，能不能换成先管住自己的一个情绪？
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