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塞内卡：塞内卡道德书简·摘录 60
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 哲学 · 人性
A great soul takes no delight in staying with the body: it considers whence it came, and knows whither it is to go. The day will come that shall separate this mixture of soul and body, of divine and human; my body I will leave where I found it, my soul I will restore to heaven, which would have been there already, but for the clog that keeps it down: and beside, how many men have been the worse for longer living, that might have died with reputation if they had been sooner taken away! How many disappointments of hopeful youths, that have proved dissolute men! Over and above the ruins, shipwrecks, torments, prisons, that attend long life; a blessing so deceitful, that if a child were in condition to judge of it, and at liberty to refuse it, he would not take it.
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定位：Excerpt 60 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
伟大的灵魂不会乐于滞留于身体：它思考自己从何而来，也知道将往何处去。终有一天，灵魂与身体、神性与人性的混合体将分离；身体我将留在发现它的地方，灵魂我将归还给天堂——若不是被拖累，它早已在那里了。此外，有多少人因为活得更久而变坏，如果早点被带走，本可以带着声誉死去！多少有希望的年轻人后来变成了放荡的人！长寿还伴随着毁灭、海难、折磨、监狱；这种祝福如此具有欺骗性，如果孩子能判断并自由拒绝，他也不会接受它。
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塞内加在此讨论灵魂与身体的关系，以及长寿可能带来的道德风险。
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你追求长寿时，是否想过活得久也可能带来更多变坏的机会？
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