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塞内卡:塞内卡道德书简·摘录 56

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

There are some that make a boast of their retreat, which is but a kind of lazy ambition; they retire to make people talk of them, whereas I would rather withdraw to speak to myself. And what shall that be, but that which we are apt to speak of one another? I will speak ill of myself: I will examine, accuse, and punish my infirmities. I have no design to be cried up for a great man, that has renounced the world in a contempt of the vanity and madness of human life; I blame nobody but myself, and I address only to myself. He that comes to me for help is mistaken, for I am not a physician, but a patient: and I shall be well enough content to have it said, when any man leaves me, “I took him for a happy and a learned man, and truly I find no such matter.” I had rather have my retreat pardoned than envied.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56075
定位:Excerpt 56 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

有些人把退隐当作炫耀的资本,这其实是一种懒惰的野心;他们隐居是为了让别人谈论自己,而我宁愿退隐是为了与自己对话。那对话的内容是什么呢?无非是我们平时彼此议论的那些事。我要说自己的坏话:审视、指控并惩罚自己的弱点。我并不想被赞誉为看破红尘、蔑视人间虚荣与疯狂的伟人;我只责备自己,只对自己说话。来找我求助的人找错了人,因为我不是医生,而是病人;如果有人离开我时说‘我本以为他是个快乐博学的人,却发现根本不是那么回事’,我会相当满意。我宁愿我的退隐被人原谅,也不愿被人羡慕。

上下文

塞内加是古罗马斯多葛派哲学家,曾任尼禄的老师。这段话出自他的道德随笔,讨论退隐的真正目的。

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今日一问

你独处时,是在真正面对自己,还是在想象别人如何看待你的独处?

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