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塞内卡:塞内卡道德书简·摘录 63
塞内卡《塞内卡道德书简》· Seneca's Morals · 健康 · 认知 · 哲学 · 行动
That good old man Bassus, (though with one foot in the grave,) how cheerful a mind does he bear. He lives in the view of death, and contemplates his own end with less concern of thought or countenance, than he would do another man’s. It is a hard lesson, and we are a long time a learning of it, to receive our death without trouble, especially in the case of Bassus: in other deaths there is a mixture of hope—a disease may be cured, a fire quenched, a falling house either propped or avoided, the sea may swallow a man and throw him up again, a pardon may interpose twixt the ax and the body—but in the case of old age there is no place for either hope or intercession.
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定位:Excerpt 63 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
老巴苏斯虽然一只脚已踏进坟墓,却心情愉快。他活在死亡面前,思考自己的终点时,比思考别人的死亡还平静。学会平静接受死亡很难,需要很长时间。其他死亡还有希望:病可治愈,火可扑灭,房子可支撑或避开,海可吞人也可吐人,斧头落下前可能有赦免。但老年没有希望或求情的余地。所以,面对必然的衰老和死亡,我们更应提前修炼心性,像巴苏斯那样从容。
上下文
塞内加在《道德书简》中常以身边人物为例,巴苏斯是他提到的老年朋友,用以说明如何面对衰老与死亡。
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对于无法逆转的衰老,你能否像巴苏斯那样,提前练习平静地看待自己的终点?
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