《沉思录》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
Meditations
从马可·奥勒留的《沉思录》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
十四。不要以为你能活上千年。死亡正悬在你头顶：趁你还活着，趁你还能行善，就去做个好人吧。
出自“THE FOURTH BOOK”
That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.
四十九。对蜂巢不利的，对蜜蜂也不可能有利。
出自“THE SIXTH BOOK”
The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them. VI. Let this be thy only joy, and thy only comfort, from one sociable kind action without intermission to pass unto another, God being ever in thy mind.
五。最好的报复，就是不要变得和他们一样。六。让这成为你唯一的快乐和唯一的安慰：从一个友善的举动不间断地走向另一个，心中始终想着神。
出自“THE SIXTH BOOK”
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.
五十六。所有人都是为彼此而生的：要么教导他们变得更好，要么容忍他们。
出自“THE EIGHTH BOOK”
Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.
四十。你必须像海中的岬角，任凭波浪不断拍打，它自岿然不动，而周围的汹涌波涛也终归平静。
出自“THE FOURTH BOOK”
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary.
七。抛开意见，就没人会觉得自己受了委屈。如果没人觉得自己受了委屈，那么委屈这回事也就不存在了。不能使人本身变坏的东西，也不能使他的生活变坏，既不能从内也不能从外伤害他。自然如此安排是有益的，因此也是必然的。
出自“THE FOURTH BOOK”
Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.
十八。不要再争论或谈论好人的标志和特质是什么，而是真正地、实际地去做一个好人。
出自“THE TENTH BOOK”
Then hath a man attained to the estate of perfection in his life and conversation, when he so spends every day, as if it were his last day: never hot and vehement in his affections, nor yet so cold and stupid as one that had no sense; and free from all manner of dissimulation.
四十。当一个人把每一天都当作最后一天来过，对情感既不狂热激烈，也不冷漠麻木如无知觉者，并且摆脱一切虚伪，他就在生活和言行上达到了完美的境界。
出自“THE SEVENTH BOOK”
Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.
二十六。死亡是感官印象的停止，是激情的暴虐的终结，是心灵的谬误的终结，是身体的奴役的终结。
出自“THE SIXTH BOOK”
Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to respect thyself, will be at an end. Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men.
三。灵魂啊，做吧，做吧；糟蹋自己，蔑视自己吧；可再过一会儿，你尊重自己的时机就要结束了。每个人的幸福都取决于自己，可你看，你的生命几乎到了尽头，你却仍不尊重自己，把自己的幸福寄托在别人的灵魂和想法上。
出自“THE SECOND BOOK”
Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion; and then thou shalt have room enough.
三十。许多让你烦恼和困窘的事情，你都有能力割断，因为它们完全取决于纯粹的臆想和意见；然后你就会有足够的空间了。
出自“THE NINTH BOOK”
If it be not fitting, do it not. If it be not true, speak it not. Ever maintain thine own purpose and resolution free from all compulsion and necessity.
十三。如果不合适，就不要做。如果不真实，就不要说。永远保持你自己的目的和决心，不受任何强迫和必然的束缚。
出自“THE TWELFTH BOOK”
Most justly have these things happened unto thee: why dost not thou amend? O but thou hadst rather become good to-morrow, than to be so to-day.
二十一。这些事发生在你身上，再公正不过了：你为什么不改正呢？唉，你宁愿明天变好，也不愿今天就变好。
出自“THE EIGHTH BOOK”
Let death surprise me when it will, and where it will, I may be εὔμοιρος, or a happy man, nevertheless.
三十。让死亡在我愿意的时候、在我愿意的地方降临吧，我仍然可以是一个εὔμοιρος，或者说一个幸福的人。
出自“THE FIFTH BOOK”
If anybody shall reprove me, and shall make it apparent unto me, that in any either opinion or action of mine I do err, I will most gladly retract. For it is the truth that I seek after, by which I am sure that never any man was hurt; and as sure, that he is hurt that continueth in any error, or ignorance whatsoever.
二十。如果有人责备我，并向我表明我在任何意见或行动上确实错了，我会非常乐意收回。因为我追求的是真理，我确信真理从未伤害过任何人；我也同样确信，坚持任何错误或无知的人，才是受了伤害。
出自“THE SIXTH BOOK”
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