本书简介:
《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,亦是温总理放在枕边,读了不下百遍的书。
本书原文由古希腊文而作,英文版选择比较权威的George Long的版本,中文版选择何怀宏的版本作参考。笔记中的英文释义摘自《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

 作者简介:
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。

卷四:任何行为都不要无目的的做出07
 小编语:看着今天的第一段话,真是很有感触啊。没多少人能变成这样,芸芸众生还是会活在周围的环境里,关心别人,与别人比较,或是活在别人的评价里。不过这样的人一定是会孤独的吧,他们的心智更为成熟,他们的意志更加坚定,也更加的相信自己。

4.16 How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure; or as Agathon says, look not round at the depraved morals of others, but run straight along the line without deviating from it.

 Notes:
deprave [v] to make somebody morally bad
deviate [v] to be different from something; to do something in a different way from what is usual or expected.

4.17 He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon; then again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole remembrance shall have been extinguished as it is transmitted through men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose that those who will remember are even immortal, and that the remembrance will be immortal, what then is this to thee? And I say not what is it to the dead, but what is it to the living? What is praise except indeed so far as it has a certain utility? For thou now rejectest unseasonably the gift of nature, clinging to something else...

 Notes:
vehement [adj] showing very strong feelings, especially anger.
posthumous [adj] happening, done, published, etc. after a person has died

 看了笔记注释之后,先尝试自己翻译一下吧,参考译文见下:

中文翻译:
4.16 那不去探究他的邻人说什么、做什么或想什么,而只注意他自己所做的,注意那公正和纯洁的事情的人,或者像厄加刺翁所说,那不环顾别人的道德堕落,而只是沿着正直的道路前进的人,为自己免去了多少烦恼啊!

4.17 那对身后的名声有一强烈欲望的人没有想到那些回忆他的人自己很快也都要死去,然后他们的子孙也要死去,直到全部的记忆都通过那些愚蠢地崇拜和死去的人们而终归湮灭无闻。但假设那些将记住他的人甚至是永生不死的,因而这记忆将是记恒的,那么这对你又意味着什么呢?我不说这对死者意味着什么,而是说这对生者意味着什么。赞扬,除非它的确有某种用途,此外还是什么呢?由于你现在不合宜地拒绝了自然的这一礼物,而依附于别的一些事物……

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