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塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 人性 · 投资 · 行动

There are many that lie close, not that they may live securely, but that they may transgress more privately: it is their conscience, not their states, that makes them keep a porter; for they live at such a rate, that to be seen before they be aware is to be detected. Crates saw a young man walking by himself; “Have a care,” says he “of lewd company.” Some men are busy in idleness, and make peace more laborious and troublesome than war; nay, and more wicked too, when they bestow it upon such lusts, and other vices, which even the license of a military life would not endure. We cannot call these people men of leisure that are wholly taken up with their pleasures. A troublesome life is much to be preferred before a slothful one; and it is a strange thing, methinks, that any man should fear death that has buried himself alive; as privacy without letters is but the burying of a man quick.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56075
定位:Excerpt 55 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

塞涅卡说,很多人深居简出,不是为了安全,而是为了更隐蔽地作恶。他们设门房,是良心不安而非地位需要,因为生活放荡到一被看见就露馅。哲学家克拉特斯见一个年轻人独自走路,就提醒他当心不良伙伴。有些人忙着偷懒,把和平弄得比战争还累、还坏,把闲暇花在连军旅放纵都不容许的欲望上。整天沉溺享乐的人不能算有闲。忙碌而麻烦的生活远胜懒散的生活;奇怪的是,有人把自己活埋了却还怕死。没有读书学习的独处,只是把活人埋掉。核心是:独处要有内容,否则只是另一种堕落。

上下文

塞涅卡是古罗马斯多葛派哲学家,这段出自他的道德随笔,批评虚假的独处和懒散的闲暇。

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今日一问

你独处的时间,有多少真正用来读书、思考或恢复,而不是刷屏和放纵?

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