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塞内卡：塞内卡道德书简·摘录 28
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 领导 · 历史 · 人性
When I look back into the moderation of past ages, it makes me ashamed to discourse, as if poverty had need of any consolation; for we are now come to that degree of intemperance, that a fair patrimony is too little for a meal. Homer had but one servant, Plato three, and Zeno (the master of the masculine sect of Stoics) had none at all. The daughters of Scipio had their portions out of the common treasury, for their father left them not a penny: how happy were the husbands that had the people of Rome for their father-in-law! Shall any man now contemn poverty after these eminent examples, which are sufficient not only to justify but to recommend it? Upon Diogenes’ only servant running away from him, he was told where he was, and persuaded to fetch him back again: “What,” says he, “can Manes live without Diogenes, and not Diogenes without Manes?” and so let him go.
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定位：Excerpt 28 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
回顾过去时代的节制，我羞于再谈贫穷需要什么安慰；因为如今我们已放纵到一顿饭就花掉一份可观家产。荷马只有一个仆人，柏拉图三个，斯多葛派创始人芝诺一个也没有。西庇阿的女儿们从国库领取嫁妆，因为父亲没留一分钱；有罗马人民做岳父的丈夫们多幸福！有了这些杰出榜样，谁还会轻视贫穷？它们不仅为贫穷辩护，还推荐贫穷。第欧根尼唯一的仆人逃跑，有人告诉他仆人在哪并劝他追回，他说：“曼尼斯没有第欧根尼能活，第欧根尼没有曼尼斯就不能活吗？”于是随他去了。
上下文
塞涅卡引用古希腊罗马名人轶事，批评当时罗马社会的奢侈风气。
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今日一问
我能否审视自己最近的一笔开销，看看它是真正需要，还是被社会风气推着走？
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