沉思录

　　《沉思录》是古罗马皇帝奥勒留写给自己的书，内容大部分是他在鞍马劳顿中写成的。作品来自奥勒留对身羁宫廷的自己和自己所处混乱世界的感受，追求一种冷静而达观的生活。这部著作是斯多葛学派的一个里程碑。

　　马可·奥勒留（Marcus Aurelius，公元121—180年），著名的“帝王哲学家”，古罗马帝国皇帝，在希腊文学和拉丁文学、修辞、哲学、法律、绘画方面受过很好的教育，晚期斯多葛学派代表人物之一。奥勒留也许是西方历史上唯一的一位哲学家皇帝。他是一个比他的帝国更加完美的人，他的勤奋工作最终并没有能够挽救古罗马，但是他的《沉思录》却成为西方历史上的伟大名著。
　　马可·奥勒留是一个悲怆的人；在一系列必须加以抗拒的欲望里，他感到其中最具有吸引力的就是想要引退去过一种宁静的乡村生活的那种愿望。但是实现这种愿望的机会始终没有来临。

译者序:历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典/1
    1.万物已近极致/3
    Everything is at its acme
    2.品性与智慧/3
    Character and intellect
    3.做事时常留有悬念/3
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译者序:历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典/1
    1.万物已近极致/3
    Everything is at its acme
    2.品性与智慧/3
    Character and intellect
    3.做事时常留有悬念/3
    Keep matters for a time in suspense
    4.有识亦应有胆/5
    Knowledge and courage
    5.让别人依赖你/5
    Create a feeling of dependence
    6.至善至美的境界/7
    A man at his highest point
    7.不要比上司更耀眼/9
    Avoid victories over superiors
    8.不被激情左右/11
    To be without passions
    9.避免土生土长的缺陷/11
    Avoid the faults of your nation
    10.财富与名望/13
    Fortune and fame
    11.择师而交/13
    Cultivate those who can teach you
    12.自然和人工:原料与加工/15
    Nature and art
    13.有时三思而行,有时立下决断/15
    Act sometimes on second thoughts,
    sometimes on first impulse
    14.事物本身及做事的方法/19
    The thing itself and the way it is done
    15.广纳贤人/19
    Keep ministering spirits
    16.学识和善心/21
    Knowledge and good intentions
    17.变换你的行为模式/21
    Vary the mode of action
    18.能力和努力/23
    Application and ability
    19.事前不要让人期望过高/25
    Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
    20.生逢其时的人/27
    A man of the age
    21.幸运之道/27
    The art of being lucky
    22.学以致用/29
    A man of knowledge to the point
    23.没有瑕疵/29
    Be spotless
    24.控制自己的幻想/31
    Keep the imagination under control
    25.善于领会弦外之音/31
    Know how to take a hint
    26.揪出他人的把柄/33
    Find out each man’s thumbscrew
    27.求精深重于求广博/33
    Prize intensity more than extent
    28.超凡脱俗/35
    Common in nothing
    29.刚直的人/35
    A man of rectitude
    30.不做毁誉之事/37
    Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
    31.学会趋利避害/39
    Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
    32.因善行而闻名/39
    Have the reputation of being gracious
    33.知道如何逃避/41
    Know how to withdraw
    34.了解自己的最强项/41
    Know your strongest point
    35.遇事斟酌,遇要事则更要斟酌/43
    Think over things, most over the most important
    36.进退之际,了解时运/45
    In acting or refraining, weigh your luck
    37.准备一些讥诮话,并善加利用/45
    Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them
    38.急流勇退/47
    Leave your luck while winning
    39.了解事物成熟的时机,并善加利用/49
    Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them
    40.获得人们的好感/49
    Gain the goodwill of people
    41.切勿言过其实/51
    Never exaggerate
    42.天生为王/53
    Born to wommand
    43.心随精英,口随大众/53
    Think with the few and speak with the many
    44.英雄相惜/55
    Sympathy with great minds
    45.狡猾可以运用,但不能滥用/57
    Use, but do not abuse, cunning
    46.控制你的反感情绪/57
    Master your antipathies
    47.避免“为荣誉而决斗”/59
    Avoid “affairs of honour”
    48.做一个有深度的人至关重要/59
    So much depends on being a person of depth
    49.明察善断/61
    Observation and judgment
    50.不失自尊/61
    Never lose self-respect
    51.选择有道/63
    Know how to choose well
    52.从不慌乱/63
    Never be put out
    53.聪明且勤奋/65
    Be diligent and intelligent
    54.懂得展示你的勇气/65
    Know how to show your teeth
    55.善于等待/67
    Wait
    56.随机应变/67
    Have presence of mind
    57.慢且稳/69
    Be slow and Sure
    58.恰当展现自己/69
    Adapt yourself to your company
    59.要有完美的收场/71
    Finish off well
    60.判断准确/71
    A sound judgment
    61.卓越之处求卓越/73
    To excel in what is excellent
    62.善其事必先利其器/73
    Use good instruments
    63.抢先为上/75
    To be the first of the kind is an excellence
    64.远离烦恼/77
    Avoid worry
    65.培养高雅的品味/77
    Elevated taste
    66.使结局完美/79
    See that things end well
    67.选择能够获得殊荣的行业/81
    Choose an occupation that wins distinction
    68.点拨其心智,胜于助其回忆/81
    It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
    69.不要冲动行事/83
    Do not give way to every common impulse
    70.学会拒绝/85
    Know how to refuse
    71.不要左右摇摆/87
    Do not vacillate
    72.要当机立断/87
    Be resolute
    73.安然退避/89
    Utilize slips
    74.与人为善/89
    Do not be unsociable
    75.选择一位英雄作为偶像/91
    Choose a heroic ideal
    76.不要总开玩笑/93
    Do not always be jesting
    77.做人须八面玲珑/93
    Be all things to all men
    78.做事有道/95
    The art of undertaking things
    79.轻松快活的个性/95
    A genial disposition
    80.获取信息要谨慎/97
    Take care to get information
    81.勇于推陈出新/97
    Renew your brilliance
    82.凡事无论好与坏,不要走极端/99
    Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill
    83.容许自己有无伤大雅之过/99
    Allow yourself some venial fault
    84.善用对手/101
    Make use of your enemies
    85.不做无所不知之人/103
    Do not be a wild card
    86.预防流言蜚语/103
    Prevent scandal
    87.文明和高雅/105
    Culture and elegance
    88.举止高贵大方/107
    Let your behaviour be fine and noble
    89.了解自己/107
    Know yourself
    90.长寿的秘密/109
    The secret of long life
    91.对做某事审慎与否若有疑虑,就别着手去做/109
    Never set to work at anything if you have
    any doubts of its prudence
    92.要有超凡的智慧/111
    Transcendent wisdom
    93.多才多艺/111
    Versatility
    94.让你的才能高深莫测/113
    Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
    95.让人们保持对你的期望/113
    Keep expectation alive
    96.至高无上的辨别力/113
    The highest discretion
    97.赢得并维护美名/115
    Obtain and preserve a reputation
    98.掩饰你的意图/115
    Write your intentions in cypher
    99.本质与表象/117
    Reality and appearance
    100.做一个清醒的人,智慧的信徒,贤能的臣子/117
    Be a man without illusions,
    a wise christian, a philosophic courtier
    101.世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人,其实他们都是蠢人/119
    One half of the world laughs at the other,
    and fools are they all
    102.天降大福需有大心胸消受/119
    Be able to stomach big slices of luck
    103.让每人都保有尊严/121
    Let each keep up his dignity
    104.明确不同工作的要求/123
    Know the demands of different occupations
    105.勿遭人烦/123
    Don’t be a bore
    106.勿炫耀你的地位/125
    Do not parade your position
    107.勿自鸣得意/127
    Show no self-satisfaction
    108.与人同行是成为伟人的捷径/129
    The path to greatness is along with others
    109.不要吹毛求疵/129
    Be not censorious
    110.不要坐以待毙/131
    Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
    111.赢得朋友/131
    Have friends
    112.博取他人的好感/133
    Gain good-will
    113.未雨绸缪/135
    In prosperity prepare for adversity
    114.避免与人相争/135
    Never compete
    115.习惯熟人的缺点/137
    Get used to the failings of your familiars
    116.只和可敬之人交往/137
    Only act with honourable men
    117.决不谈论自己/139
    Never talk about yourself
    118.要赢得谦恭有礼的名声/139
    Acquire the reputation of courtesy
    119.避免惹人厌烦/141
    Avoid becoming disliked
    120.生活讲求实际/143
    Live practically
    121.不要小题大做/145
    Do not make a business of what is no business
    122.言行应有威信/145
    Distinction in speech and action
    123.避免矫揉造作/147
    Avoid affectation
    124.要被他人想念/147
    Get yourself missed
    125.不要成为污点记录簿/149
    Do not be a black list
    126.愚蠢并非做了蠢事,而在于做后不知掩饰/151
    Folly consists not in
    committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed
    127.凡是从容优雅/151
    Grace in everything
    128.要有高远的志向/153
    Highmindedness
    129.从不抱怨/153
    Never complain
    130.要干,且要让人看见/155
    Do and be seen doing
    131.慷慨大度/157
    Nobility of feeling
    132.修正自己的判断/157
    Revise your judgments
    133.宁可同醉,而不独醒/159
    Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
    134.加倍储存你的资源/159
    Double your resources
    135.不要滋长唱反调的习气/161
    Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
    136.抓住事情关键/163
    Post yourself in the centre of things
    137.圣人自足/163
    The sage should be self-sufficing
    138.任其自然的艺术/165
    The art of letting things alone
    139.冷静面对倒霉的日子/165
    Recognize unlucky days
    140.一眼看到事物好的一面/167
    Find the good in a thing at once
    141.不要只倾听自己的声音/169
    Do not listen to yourself
    142.当对手先站在正确的一方时,你不能固执地站在错误的一方/171
    Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
    opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
    143.别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术/173
    Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
    144.开始于他人,受用于自己/173
    Begin with another’s to end with your own
    145.藏好你受伤的手指/175
    Do not show your wounded finger
    146.透过现象看本质/177
    Look into the interior of things
    147.采纳他人的建议/177
    Do not be inaccessible
    148.掌握谈话的艺术/179
    Have the art of conversation
    149.懂得推罪于人/181
    Know how to put off ills on others
    150.推销得法/181
    Know how to get your price for things
    151.高瞻远瞩/183
    Think beforehand
    152.不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍/185
    Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
    153.不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺/185
    Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
    154.不轻易相信,也不轻易喜欢/187
    Do not believe, or like, lightly
    155.掌控激情的艺术/189
    The art of mastering your passions
    156.选择你的朋友/189
    Select your friends
    157.识人别出错/191
    Do not make mistakes about character
    158.善用朋友/193
    Make use of your friends
    159.忍受愚蠢/195
    Put up with fools
    160.说话要谨慎/195
    Be careful in speaking
    161.认清自身喜爱的缺点/197
    Know your pet faults
    162.如何战胜对手和诽谤者/197
    How to triumph over rivals and detractors
    163.决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸/199
    Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,
    involve yourself in his fate
    164.投石问路/201
    Throw straws in the air
    165.斗争也要讲体面/201
    Wage war honourably
    166.分辨善言者与善行者/203
    Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
    167.知道怎样依靠自己/203
    Know how to take your own part
    168.不要沦为愚蠢的怪物/205
    Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
    169.多加小心,避免万一失手胜过百发百中/207
    Be more careful not to miss once
    than to hit a hundred times
    170.凡事有所保留/207
    In all things keep something in reserve
    171.不要滥用人情/209
    Do not waste influence
    172.决不与一无所有者争斗/209
    Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
    173.与人相交,不要像玻璃般易碎,朋友间尤其如此/211
    Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
    174.不要活在匆忙中/213
    Do not live in a hurry
    175.做个实在的人/213
    A solid man
    176.自知或从知者处知/215
    Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge
    177.避免与人太亲近/217
    Avoid familiarities in intercourse
    178.信赖你的内心/217
    Trust your heart
    179.缄默是才能的标志/219
    Reticence is the seal of capacity
    180.决不被敌人误导/221
    Never be guided by what your enemy has done
    181.说真话,但不要说出所有真话/221
    The truth, but not the whole truth
    182.凡事都要勇敢/221
    A grain of boldness in everything
    183.不要固执己见/223
    Do not hold your views too firmly
    184.不要过分拘礼/225
    Do not be ceremonious
    185.切莫孤注一掷赌名声/225
    Never stake your credit on a single cast
    186.认识缺点,不管其地位有多高/227
    Recognize faults, however high placed
    187.令人愉快之事,自己做;令人不快之事,让他人代劳/229
    Do pleasant things yourself,
    unpleasant things through others
    188.成为赞美之人/229
    Be the bearer of praise
    189.利用他人的欲望/231
    Utilize another’s wants
    190.在万物中寻觅慰藉/233
    Find consolation in all things
    191.慎防巧言令色/233
    Do not take payment in politeness
    192.心境平和则长寿/235
    Peaceful life, a long life
    193.防备那些利用他人达到自己目的的人/235
    Watch him that begins with another’s
    to end with his own
    194.理性看待自己和自己的事/237
    Have reasonable views of yourself and of your affairs
    195.学会欣赏别人/239
    Know how to appreciate
    196.知道你的幸运星/239
    Know your ruling star
    197.不要为蠢人所累/241
    Do not carry fools on your back
    198.懂得易地而处/243
    Know how to transplant yourself
    199.获得自己合适的位置,凭德行而非逾越/245
    To find a proper place by merit, not by presumption
    200.把一些愿望留到以后去满足/245
    Leave something to wish for
    201.看上去愚蠢的人都是笨蛋,看上去聪明的人也有一半是笨蛋/247
    They are all fools who seem so besides half the rest
    202.言语和行为共同打造完美之人/247
    Words and deeds make the perfect man
    203.认识你这个时代的伟人/249
    Know the great men of your age
    204.举轻若重,且举重若轻/249
    Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult,
    and difficult as if they were easy
    205.懂得漠视的技巧/251
    Know how to play the card of contempt
    206.要明白平庸者无处不在/253
    Know that there are vulgar people everywhere
    207.学会控制自己/253
    Be moderate
    208.不要死于愚蠢/255
    Do not die of the fools’ disease
    209.超然于世俗的愚蠢/257
    Keep yourself free from common follies
    210.懂得怎样对待真相/257
    Know how to play the card of truth
    211.天堂中一切是福,地狱中所有为苦/259
    In heaven all is bliss
    212.懂得保留绝招的艺术/259
    Keep to yourself the final touches of your art
    213.懂得如何反驳/261
    Know how to contradict
    214.不要把一个错误变成两个错误/263
    Do not turn one blunder into two
    215.提防那些掩饰自己意图的人/263
    Watch him that acts on second thoughts
    216.清楚地表达自己/265
    Be expressive
    217.没有永远的爱,也没有永远的恨/267
    Neither love nor hate forever
    218.行动不可出自固执,而应源于了解/267
    Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge
    219.不要被看成伪君子/269
    Do not pass for a hypocrite
    220.不能披狮皮,那就披狐皮/271
    If you cannot clothe yourself in lionskin use foxpelt
    221.不要动辄使自己和他人感到尴尬/271
    Do not seize occasions to embarrass yourself or others
    222.缄默是谨慎的表现/273
    Reserve is proof of prudence
    223.不要因做作或粗心而显得古怪/273
    Be not eccentric
    224.不看事物的反面,不管事情怎样出现/275
    Never take things against the grain
    225.知道你最大的缺点/275
    Know your chief fault
    226.乐于帮助他人/277
    Take care to be obliging
    227.不要成为第一印象的奴隶/277
    Do not be the slave of first impressions
    228.不要传播丑闻/279
    Do not be a scandal-monger
    229.合理规划自己的生活/281
    Plan out your life wisely
    230.早日睁开你的眼睛/281
    Open your eyes betimes
    231.不让他人看到未成之事/283
    Never let things be seen half-finished
    232.要接触实务/285
    Have a touch of business sense
    233.提供点食物,不要让人难咽/285
    Let not the proffered morsel be distasteful
    234.决不把名誉托付他人,除非他人以名誉作抵押/287
    Never trust your honour to another,
    unless you have his in pledge
    235.求人有术/289
    Know how to ask
    236.如果日后必求人且需答谢,还不如先施惠于人/289
    Make an obligation beforehand
    of what would have to be a reward afterwards
    237.决不分享上司的秘密/291
    Never share the secrets of your superiors
    238.知道自己缺少什么/293
    Know what is wanting in yourself
    239.不要打破沙锅问到底/293
    Do not be captious
    240.学会装傻/295
    Make use of folly
    241.容忍别人嘲笑,但别嘲弄他人/295
    Put up with raillery, but do not practise it
    242.做事要有始有终/297
    Push advantages
    243.不要太过善良/299
    Do not be too much of a dove
    244.让别人对你感恩/299
    Create a feeling of obligation
    245.要有独到的见解,这是才智过人的标志/301
    Original and out-of-the-way views
    246.除非被要求,决不提供解释/303
    Never offer satisfaction unless it is demanded
    247.求知应多,生活应简/303
    Know a little more, live a little less
    248.不要认同最新的说法/305
    Do not go with the last speaker
    249.人生不要本末倒置/305
    Never begin life with what should end it
    250.何时把他人的话反过来听/307
    When to change the conversation
    251.运用人道之时,就当神道不存。运用神道之时,只当人道不在/307
    Use human means as if there were no divine ones,
    and divine as if there were no human ones
    252.活着并非全为自己,也不是全为他人/307
    Neither belong entirely to yourself nor
    entirely to others
    253.不要解释太多/309
    Do not explain overmuch
    254.勿因恶小而轻视它/311
    Never despise an evil, however small
    255.行善不求大,但要常去做/313
    Do good a little at a time, but often
    256.时刻做好防备/313
    Go armed, always
    257.不要轻易断交/315
    Never let matters come to a rupture
    258.找人分担你的烦恼/317
    Find out someone to share your troubles
    259.预见伤害,并将之转化为庇护/317
    Anticipate injuries and turn them into favours
    260.我们不完全属于任何人,也没有任何人完全属于我们/319
    We belong to none and none to us, entirely
    261.不要执迷不悟/319
    Do not follow up a folly
    262.能够忘记/321
    Be able to forget
    263.许多好东西你不应一味想占有/321
    Many things of taste one should not possess oneself
    264.每天都不能大意/323
    Have no careless days
    265.为部下安排最难的任务/325
    Set those under you difficult task
    266.不要因为太善良而变糟/325
    Do not become bad from sheer goodness
    267.言语温软,举止优雅/327
    Silken words, sugared manners
    268.蠢人最后做的事,智者会马上做/327
    The wise does at once what the fool does at last
    269.利用你刚上任时人们的新鲜感/329
    Make use of the novelty of your position
    270.众人喜欢之物,个人不要谴责/331
    Do not condemn alone that which pleases all
    271.不管从事任何工作,如果你所知不多,就走最安全的路线/331
    In every occupation if you know little
    stick to the safest path
    272.出售东西,附送殷勤/333
    Sell things by the tariff of courtesy
    273.了解你所交往的人的性情/333
    Comprehend their dispositions with whom you deal
    274.要有吸引力/335
    Be attractive
    275.参加游戏,但应得体/335
    Join in the game as far as decency permits
    276.知道如何完善自己的品性/337
    Know how to renew your character
    277.展示你自己/339
    Display yourself
    278.避免抢眼而招致恶名/341
    Avoid notoriety in all things
    279.不要回应驳斥你的人/341
    Do not contradict the contradicter
    280.做个值得信赖的人/343
    Be trustworthy
    281.赢得智者的好感/343
    Find favour with men of good sense
    282.不现身,从而使自己更受敬重/345
    Make use of absence to make
    yourself more esteemed or valued
    283.拥有善于发现之天赋/345
    Have the gift of discovery
    284.不要多管闲事/347
    Do not be importunate
    285.不要死于他人之厄运/347
    Never die of another’s ill-luck
    286.不要对所有的人和事都负责/349
    Do not become responsible for all or for everyone
    287.冲动之时决不行动/349
    Never act in a passion
    288.顺应时势/351
    Live for the moment
    289.要贬低一个人,莫过于表明他和任何人都没有区别/353
    Nothing depreciates a man more than
    to show he is a man like other men
    290.如能赢得人们的喜爱和尊敬,则是莫大的幸运/353
    It is a piece of good fortune to combine men’s
    love and respect
    291.懂得如何揣测他人/355
    Know how to test people
    292.让你自身的素质超过职责的要求/355
    Let your personal qualities surpass those of your office
    293.做人应成熟/357
    Maturity
    294.观点不能有所偏颇/357
    Be moderate in your views
    295.若未奏效,不要邀功/359
    Do not affect what you have not effected
    296.高贵的品质/361
    Noble qualities
    297.行动总如处于监视中/361
    Always act as if your acts were seen
    298.可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363
    Three things go to a prodigy
    299.让人有饥饿感/363
    Leave off hungry
    300.总而言之,做一位圣徒/365
    In one word, be a saint
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