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塞内卡：塞内卡道德书简·摘录 26
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 认知 · 哲学 · 投资
No man can be said to be perfectly happy that runs the risk of disappointment: which is the case of every man that _fears_ or _hopes_ for anything. For _hope_ and _fear_, how distant soever they may seem to be the one from the other, they are both of them yet coupled in the same chain, as the guard and the prisoner; and the one treads upon the heels of the other. The reason of this is obvious, for they are passions that look forward, and are ever solicitous for the future; only _hope_ is the more plausible weakness of the two, which in truth, upon the main, are inseparable; for the one cannot be without the other: but where the _hope_ is stronger than the _fear_, or the _fear_ than the _hope_, we call it the one or the other; for without _fear_ it were no longer _hope_, but _certainty_; as without _hope_ it were no longer _fear_ but _despair_.
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定位：Excerpt 26 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
没有人能称得上完全幸福，只要他还可能遭遇失望——而任何怀有恐惧或希望的人都是如此。希望和恐惧看似相距甚远，却像看守与囚犯拴在同一根链子上，一个紧跟着另一个。原因很明显：它们都是向前看的激情，总为未来焦虑；希望只是两者中更讨喜的弱点，实际上它们密不可分，缺一不可。希望强于恐惧，或恐惧强于希望，我们才分别称之为希望或恐惧；没有恐惧，希望就成了确信；没有希望，恐惧就成了绝望。所以，真正的幸福不在于押注未来，而在于把心安放在当下能掌控的事上。
上下文
塞涅卡是古罗马斯多葛派哲学家，这段话出自其道德随笔，讨论幸福与情感的关系。
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今天，我能否觉察自己正被某个希望或恐惧牵着走，并试着把注意力拉回当下能做的事？
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