這是一份關於愛比克泰德（Epictetus）《手冊》（Enchiridion）對照翻譯與解析。這部作品是斯多葛學派（Stoicism）的經典，核心在於區分「我們能控制的」與「我們不能控制的」。
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The Enchiridion By Epictetus. Written 135 A.C.E. Translated by Elizabeth Carter | 《手冊》 愛比克泰德 著。寫於西元 135 年。伊莉莎白·卡特 英譯。 |
1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. | 1. 有些事情是我們能控制的，有些則不然。我們能控制的是：見解、追求、慾望、厭惡，總之，凡是我們自己的行為。我們不能控制的是：身體、財產、名聲、官職，總之，凡不是我們自己的行為。 |
The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered. You will lament, you will be disturbed, and you will find fault both with gods and men. | 我們能控制的事物，天生是自由的、不受限制的、無阻礙的；而不能控制的事物，則是虛弱的、受奴役的、受限的、屬於他人的。因此請記住，如果你誤以為那些天生受奴役的是自由的，以為屬於他人的事物是你自己的，你就會受阻。你會哀嘆、會感到困擾，並會指責神靈與世人。 |
But if you suppose that only to be your own which is your own, and what belongs to others such as it really is, then no one will ever compel you or restrain you. Further, you will find fault with no one or accuse no one. You will do nothing against your will. No one will hurt you, you will have no enemies, and you not be harmed. | 但如果你只把自己擁有的視為自己的，將屬於他人的視為其本然，那麼就沒有人能強迫你或限制你。此外，你不會指責任何人，也不會控訴任何人。你不會做任何違背自己意願的事。沒有人能傷害你，你將沒有敵人，也不會受損。 |
Aiming therefore at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself to be carried, even with a slight tendency, towards the attainment of lesser things. Instead, you must entirely quit some things and for the present postpone the rest. | 因此，當你志在如此宏大的目標時，記住你絕不能讓自己被哪怕是一絲傾向帶向追求那些微不足道的事物。相反，你必須完全放棄某些事，並暫時推遲其餘的事。 |
But if you would both have these great things, along with power and riches, then you will not gain even the latter, because you aim at the former too: but you will absolutely fail of the former, by which alone happiness and freedom are achieved. | 但如果你既想擁有這些偉大的事物，又想擁有權力與財富，那麼你甚至連後者都得不到，因為你也志在前者；而你絕對會失去前者，那是唯一能實現幸福與自由的途徑。 |
Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, "You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be." And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you. | 因此，要努力對每一個嚴酷的表象說：「你只是一個表象，絕非你表現出來的那個樣子。」然後用你掌握的準則去檢驗它，首先且最重要的是這一點：這是否關乎我們能控制的事物，還是不能控制的事物；如果它關乎我們不能控制的事，請準備好說：「這與我無關。」 |
2. Remember that following desire promises the attainment of that of which you are desirous; and aversion promises the avoiding that to which you are averse. However, he who fails to obtain the object of his desire is disappointed, and he who incurs the object of his aversion wretched. | 2. 記住，追求慾望承諾的是得到你所渴望的；而厭惡承諾的是避開你所反感的。然而，那些未能獲得渴望之物的人會感到失望，而那些遭遇了反感之物的人則會感到痛苦。 |
If, then, you confine your aversion to those objects only which are contrary to the natural use of your faculties, which you have in your own control, you will never incur anything to which you are averse. But if you are averse to sickness, or death, or poverty, you will be wretched. | 因此，如果你僅僅對那些違背你天賦能力（即你能控制的事物）的對象產生厭惡，你就永遠不會遭遇你厭惡的事。但如果你厭惡疾病、死亡或貧窮，你將會變得很痛苦。 |
Remove aversion, then, from all things that are not in our control, and transfer it to things contrary to the nature of what is in our control. But, for the present, totally suppress desire: for, if you desire any of the things which are not in your own control, you must necessarily be disappointed; and of those which are, and which it would be laudable to desire, nothing is yet in your possession. Use only the appropriate actions of pursuit and avoidance; and even these lightly, and with gentleness and reservation. | 因此，請從所有我們不能控制的事物中移除厭惡，將其轉移到那些違背我們所控事物本性的事情上。但就目前而言，要完全抑制慾望：因為如果你渴望任何不在你控制之內的事物，你必然會失望；而對於那些在你控制之內、且值得渴望的事物，你目前尚未擁有其中任何一件。只在合適的追求與迴避行為中使用它們；即使是這些行為，也要輕巧、溫和且有所保留。 |
3. With regard to whatever objects give you delight, are useful, or are deeply loved, remember to tell yourself of what general nature they are, beginning from the most insignificant things. If, for example, you are fond of a specific ceramic cup, remind yourself that it is only ceramic cups in general of which you are fond. Then, if it breaks, you will not be disturbed. If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies. | 3. 對於任何帶給你愉悅、有用或深愛的物品，記住要告訴自己它們的一般本質，從最微不足道的事物開始。例如，如果你喜歡一個特定的陶瓷杯，提醒自己你喜歡的只是陶瓷杯本身。那麼當它破碎時，你就不會心煩意亂。如果你親吻你的孩子或妻子，要說你親吻的是凡人，這樣當他們去世時，你就不會心碎。 |
4. When you are going about any action, remind yourself what nature the action is. If you are going to bathe, picture to yourself the things which usually happen in the bath: some people splash the water, some push, some use abusive language, and others steal. Thus you will more safely go about this action if you say to yourself, "I will now go bathe, and keep my own mind in a state conformable to nature." | 4. 當你進行任何行動時，提醒自己該行動的本質。如果你要去洗澡，在腦海中勾勒出洗澡時通常會發生的事：有人濺水、有人推擠、有人謾罵、有人偷竊。如果你對自己說：「我現在要去洗澡，並保持自己的心境順應自然」，你就能更穩妥地進行這項行動。 |
And in the same manner with regard to every other action. For thus, if any hindrance arises in bathing, you will have it ready to say, "It was not only to bathe that I desired, but to keep my mind in a state conformable to nature; and I will not keep it if I am bothered at things that happen. | 對於其他每一項行動也是如此。因為這樣一來，如果在洗澡時出現任何阻礙，你就會準備好說：「我渴望的不僅是洗澡，還有保持我的心靈順應自然；如果我為發生的事感到煩擾，我就無法保持它了。」 |
5. Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. | 5. 困擾人們的不是事物本身，而是他們對事物所形成的原則與觀念。例如死亡並不恐怖，否則蘇格拉底也會覺得恐怖。恐怖之處在於我們認為死亡是恐怖的觀念。 |
When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself. | 因此，當我們受阻、受擾或哀傷時，絕不要將其歸咎於他人，而要歸咎於我們自己；也就是歸咎於我們自己的原則。未受教導的人會將自己的糟糕狀況歸咎於他人。剛開始受教的人會歸咎於自己。而完全受過教導的人，既不會責怪他人，也不會責怪自己。 |
6. Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse should be prideful and say, " I am handsome," it would be supportable. But when you are prideful, and say, " I have a handsome horse," know that you are proud of what is, in fact, only the good of the horse. What, then, is your own? Only your reaction to the appearances of things. | 6. 不要為任何不屬於你自己的優點感到自豪。如果一匹馬感到自豪並說「我很帥氣」，那是可以理解的。但當你自豪地說「我有一匹帥氣的馬」時，要明白你所自豪的實際上僅僅是這匹馬的優點。那麼，什麼是你自己的？只有你對事物表象的反應。 |
Thus, when you behave conformably to nature in reaction to how things appear, you will be proud with reason; for you will take pride in some good of your own. | 因此，當你對事物表象的反應是順應自然時，你就有理由感到自豪；因為你是在為屬於你自己的優點感到自豪。 |
7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. | 7. 想像你在一次航行中，船靠了岸；如果你上岸取水，你可能會在途中撿個貝殼或洋蔥解悶。然而，你的思想和持續的注意力應當轉向船隻，等待船長召喚登船；屆時你必須立刻放下這一切，否則你就會像羊一樣被捆住手腳扔進船裡。 |
So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time. | 人生亦是如此。如果給予你的不是洋蔥或貝殼，而是妻子或孩子，那也很好。但如果船長召喚，你必須奔向船隻，離開他們，不要留戀其中任何一個。如果你已經年老，絕不要遠離船隻：以免當召喚到來時，你無法及時趕回。 |
8. Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. | 8. 不要要求事情按照你的意願發生，而是希望事情按照它們實際發生的方式發生，這樣你就會順心。 |
9. Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself. | 9. 疾病是對身體的障礙，但不是對你選擇能力的障礙，除非你自己選擇受阻。跛腳是對腿的障礙，但不是對你選擇能力的障礙。對發生的每一件事都這樣對自己說，那麼你就會把這些障礙看作是針對其他事物的，而不是針對你自己。 |
10. With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them. | 10. 每當發生意外時，問問你自己具備什麼能力來妥善應對它。如果你見到迷人的人，你會發現自制力是你對抗慾望的能力。如果你感到痛苦，你會發現堅韌。如果你聽到不悅的言語，你會發現耐心。養成這種習慣後，事物的表象就不會把你捲走。 |
11. Never say of anything, "I have lost it"; but, "I have returned it." Is your child dead? It is returned. Is your wife dead? She is returned. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise returned? "But he who took it away is a bad man." What difference is it to you who the giver assigns to take it back? While he gives it to you to possess, take care of it; but don't view it as your own, just as travelers view a hotel. | 11. 永遠不要對任何事說「我失去了它」，而要說「我歸還了它」。你的孩子死了嗎？他被歸還了。你的妻子死了嗎？她被歸還了。你的財產被奪走了嗎？難道這不也是被歸還了嗎？「但那個奪走它的人是個壞人。」給予者指派誰來收回它，對你來說又有什麼關係呢？當他交給你擁有時，請好好照看它；但不要把它視為你自己的，就像旅人看待旅館一樣。 |
12. If you want to improve, reject such reasonings as these: "If I neglect my affairs, I'll have no income; if I don't correct my servant, he will be bad." For it is better to die with hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation; and it is better your servant should be bad, than you unhappy. | 12. 如果你想進步，請屏棄這類推論：「如果我忽視事務，我就沒有收入；如果我不責罰僕人，他會變壞。」因為與其在動盪不安中過著富足的生活，不如在免於憂傷與恐懼中餓死；與其讓你感到不快樂，不如讓你的僕人變壞。 |
Begin therefore from little things. Is a little oil spilt? A little wine stolen? Say to yourself, "This is the price paid for equanimity, for tranquillity, and nothing is to be had for nothing." When you call your servant, it is possible that he may not come; or, if he does, he may not do what you want. But he is by no means of such importance that it should be in his power to give you any disturbance. | 因此要從微小的事物開始。灑了一點油嗎？偷了一點酒嗎？對自己說：「這是為了平靜與安寧所付出的代價，天下沒有白吃的午餐。」當你召喚僕人時，他可能不來；或者他來了，卻不照你的意思做。但他絕對沒有重要到擁有能讓你感到煩擾的權力。 |
13. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. | 13. 如果你想進步，就要甘願在外界事物上被認為是愚蠢和笨拙的。不要渴望被認為無所不知；即使你在他人眼中顯得舉足輕重，也要對自己保持警覺。 |
For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other. | 因為，要既能保持你的選擇能力順應自然，同時又獲得外界事物，是非常困難的。當你小心呵護其中一項時，必然會忽視另一項。 |
14. If you wish your children, and your wife, and your friends to live for ever, you are stupid; for you wish to be in control of things which you cannot, you wish for things that belong to others to be your own. So likewise, if you wish your servant to be without fault, you are a fool; for you wish vice not to be vice," but something else. | 14. 如果你希望你的孩子、妻子和朋友長生不老，那是愚蠢的；因為你希望控制那些你無法控制的事物，你希望屬於他人的東西變成你自己的。同樣地，如果你希望你的僕人沒有過錯，你就是個傻瓜；因為你希望惡習不再是惡習，而是別的什麼。 |
But, if you wish to have your desires undisappointed, this is in your own control. Exercise, therefore, what is in your control. He is the master of every other person who is able to confer or remove whatever that person wishes either to have or to avoid. Whoever, then, would be free, let him wish nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others else he must necessarily be a slave. | 但是，如果你希望你的慾望不落空，這是你所能控制的。因此，去練習你能控制的事吧。凡是能給予或奪走他人所渴望或避諱之物的人，就是那個人的主人。因此，誰想要自由，就讓他不要渴望任何事，也不要拒絕任何事，只要那些事是取決於他人的，否則他必然會成為奴隸。 |
15. Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don't stop it. Is it not yet come? Don't stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. | 15. 記住，你在生活中必須像在宴會上一樣行事。有任何東西傳到你面前嗎？伸手拿走你那份，但要克制。它離你而去了嗎？不要阻攔它。它還沒到嗎？不要把你的渴望伸向它，而是要等待直到它傳到你手中。 |
Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don't even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire. | 對孩子、妻子、官職、財富都要如此，最終你將成為神靈盛宴中合格的伴侶。如果你甚至不拿走擺在你面前的東西，而是能夠拒絕它們，那麼你不僅會成為神靈盛宴的伴侶，還會分享他們的帝國。 |
For, by doing this, Diogenes, Heraclitus and others like them, deservedly became, and were called, divine. | 因為透過這樣做，第歐根尼、赫拉克利特和其他像他們一樣的人，理所應當地成為並被稱為神聖的人。 |
16. When you see anyone weeping in grief because his son has gone abroad, or is dead, or because he has suffered in his affairs, be careful that the appearance may not misdirect you. Instead, distinguish within your own mind, and be prepared to say, "It's not the accident that distresses this person., because it doesn't distress another person; it is the judgment which he makes about it." | 16. 當你看到有人因兒子出國、去世或因事務受損而悲傷哭泣時，要小心不要讓這種表象誤導你。相反地，要在心中辨別，並準備好說：「令這個人痛苦的不是這起事故，因為這事故並未令另一人痛苦；而是他對這件事所下的判斷。」 |
As far as words go, however, don't reduce yourself to his level, and certainly do not moan with him. Do not moan inwardly either. | 雖然在言語上，你不需要降到他的層次，當然也不要和他一起呻吟。在內心也不要呻吟。 |
17. Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you act it naturally. | 17. 記住，你是一場戲劇中的演員，戲劇的種類取決於編劇的喜好。如果是短劇，就是短劇；如果是長劇，就是長劇。如果他樂意讓你演一個窮人、一個跛子、一個統治者或一個平民，請務必演得自然。 |
For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another's. | 因為你的職責，就是演好分配給你的角色；而選擇角色是別人的事。 |
18. When a raven happens to croak unluckily, don't allow the appearance hurry you away with it, but immediately make the distinction to yourself, and say, "None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it." | 18. 當烏鴉碰巧發出不祥的叫聲時，不要讓這種表象捲走你，而要立刻對自己區分說：「這些預兆都不是針對我的；而是針對我那微不足道的身體、財產、名聲、孩子或妻子。但對我來說，如果我願意，所有的預兆都是吉利的。因為無論發生其中的哪一件事，我都能從中獲益，這在我的控制之下。」 |
19. You may be unconquerable, if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own control to conquer. When, therefore, you see anyone eminent in honors, or power, or in high esteem on any other account, take heed not to be hurried away with the appearance, and to pronounce him happy; | 19. 如果你不參與任何你無法控制勝負的競賽，你就是不可戰勝的。因此，當你看到有人享有崇高的榮譽、權力或在其他方面受到高度評價時，要注意不要被表象捲走，也不要判定他是幸福的； |
for, if the essence of good consists in things in our own control, there will be no room for envy or emulation. But, for your part, don't wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a contempt of things not in our own control. | 因為，如果善的本質在於我們能控制的事物，那就沒有嫉妒或競爭的空間。至於你，不要渴望當將軍、參議員或執政官，而要渴望自由；而達到自由的唯一途徑，就是藐視那些我們不能控制的事物。 |
20. Remember, that not he who gives ill language or a blow insults, but the principle which represents these things as insulting. When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. | 20. 記住，侮辱你的不是那些口出惡言或動手打人的人，而是那種認為這些行為是侮辱的原則。因此，當有人激怒你時，請確信激怒你的是你自己的見解。 |
Try, therefore, in the first place, not to be hurried away with the appearance. For if you once gain time and respite, you will more easily command yourself. | 因此，首先要努力不要被表象捲走。因為一旦你贏得了時間與喘息之機，你就更容易掌控自己。 |
21. Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. | 21. 讓死亡、流放和所有其他顯得恐怖的事物每天浮現在你的眼前，尤其是死亡，這樣你就永遠不會有卑躬屈膝的念頭，也不會過於貪求任何東西。 |
22. If you have an earnest desire of attaining to philosophy, prepare yourself from the very first to be laughed at, to be sneered by the multitude, to hear them say,." He is returned to us a philosopher all at once," and " Whence this supercilious look?" | 22. 如果你真誠地渴望追求哲學，從一開始就要準備好被嘲笑、被大眾蔑視，聽他們說：「他突然變成一個哲學家回來了」，以及「這種傲慢的神情是從哪來的？」 |
Now, for your part, don't have a supercilious look indeed; but keep steadily to those things which appear best to you as one appointed by God to this station. For remember that, if you adhere to the same point, those very persons who at first ridiculed will afterwards admire you. But if you are conquered by them, you will incur a double ridicule. | 而你，確實不要擺出傲慢的神情；但要堅定地守住那些你認為最好的事物，就像被神指派到這個位置上一樣。因為請記住，如果你堅持到底，那些起初嘲笑你的人後來會欽佩你。但如果你被他們擊敗，你將遭受雙倍的嘲笑。 |
23. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, so as to wish to please anyone, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything with being a philosopher; and, if you wish to be thought so likewise by anyone, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you. | 23. 如果你曾經將注意力轉向外界事物，以至於想討好任何人，請確信你已經毀掉了你的生活規劃。因此，在每件事上都要以做一個哲學家為滿足；如果你也希望被他人看作哲學家，那就先在你自己面前表現得像個哲學家，這就足夠了。 |
24. Don't allow such considerations as these distress you. "I will live in dishonor, and be nobody anywhere." For, if dishonor is an evil, you can no more be involved in any evil by the means of another, than be engaged in anything base. | 24. 不要讓這類念頭困擾你：「我將活在恥辱中，在任何地方都無足輕重。」因為，如果恥辱是一種惡，那麼他人無法讓你陷入任何惡中，就像他人無法讓你做出任何卑鄙的事一樣。 |
Is it any business of yours, then, to get power, or to be admitted to an entertainment? By no means. How, then, after all, is this a dishonor? And how is it true that you will be nobody anywhere, when you ought to be somebody in those things only which are in your own control, in which you may be of the greatest consequence? | 難道獲得權力或被邀請參加盛宴是你的職責嗎？絕非如此。那麼，這到底怎麼算是一種恥辱呢？如果你本應只在那些你能控制、並能發揮最大作用的事情上有所作為，那又怎麼能說你在任何地方都無足輕重呢？ |
"But my friends will be unassisted." -- What do you mean by unassisted? They will not have money from you, nor will you make them Roman citizens. Who told you, then, that these are among the things in our own control, and not the affair of others? | 「但我的朋友將得不到幫助。」——你所說的「得不到幫助」是什麼意思？他們不會從你那裡得到錢，你也不會讓他們成為羅馬公民。那麼，是誰告訴你這些事是在我們控制之內，而不是他人的私事呢？ |
And who can give to another the things which he has not himself? "Well, but get them, then, that we too may have a share." If I can get them with the preservation of my own honor and fidelity and greatness of mind, show me the way and I will get them; | 誰能把連自己都沒有的東西給別人呢？「好吧，那就去弄到它們，讓我們也能分一杯羹。」如果我能在保有我的尊嚴、忠誠與博大胸懷的同時弄到它們，請告訴我方法，我就去弄； |
but if you require me to lose my own proper good that you may gain what is not good, consider how inequitable and foolish you are. Besides, which would you rather have, a sum of money, or a friend of fidelity and honor? | 但如果你要求我失去我應有的善，好讓你能得到並非善的事物，看看你是多麼不公平且愚蠢。此外，你寧願擁有一筆錢，還是擁有一位忠誠且有尊嚴的朋友？ |
Rather assist me, then, to gain this character than require me to do those things by which I may lose it. Well, but my country, say you, as far as depends on me, will be unassisted. Here again, what assistance is this you mean? | 所以，與其要求我做那些會讓我失去品格的事，不如幫助我獲得這種品格。好吧，你說，就我而言，我的國家將得不到幫助。這裡又要問，你指的幫助是什麼？ |
"It will not have porticoes nor baths of your providing." And what signifies that? Why, neither does a smith provide it with shoes, or a shoemaker with arms. It is enough if everyone fully performs his own proper business. | 「它不會有你提供的門廊或浴場。」那又意味著什麼呢？你看，鐵匠不提供鞋子，鞋匠也不提供武器。只要每個人都能克盡己職就足夠了。 |
And were you to supply it with another citizen of honor and fidelity, would not he be of use to it? Yes. Therefore neither are you yourself useless to it. "What place, then, say you, will I hold in the state?" Whatever you can hold with the preservation of your fidelity and honor. | 如果你能為國家提供另一位有尊嚴且忠誠的公民，那對國家不是更有用嗎？是的。因此你本人對國家並非無用。「那麼，」你問，「我在國家中將佔據什麼地位？」任何你在保有忠誠與尊嚴的前提下所能佔據的地位。 |
But if, by desiring to be useful to that, you lose these, of what use can you be to your country when you are become faithless and void of shame. | 但如果你為了想對國家有用而失去了這些品質，當你變得不守信義且不知羞恥時，你對國家還能有什麼用呢？ |
25. Is anyone preferred before you at an entertainment, or in a compliment, or in being admitted to a consultation? If these things are good, you ought to be glad that he has gotten them; and if they are evil, don't be grieved that you have not gotten them. | 25. 是否有人在宴會上、受讚揚時或受邀諮商時比你更受優待？如果這些是好事，你應該為他得到它們而高興；如果它們是惡事，不要為你沒得到它們而悲傷。 |
And remember that you cannot, without using the same means [which others do] to acquire things not in our own control, expect to be thought worthy of an equal share of them. For how can he who does not frequent the door of any [great] man, does not attend him, does not praise him, have an equal share with him who does? | 記住，如果你不採用（他人所用的）同樣手段去獲取那些非我們所控的事物，你就不能指望被認為配得上同等的一份。因為一個不常出現在權貴門前、不隨侍左右、不讚美他的人，怎麼能與那些這樣做的人平起平坐呢？ |
You are unjust, then, and insatiable, if you are unwilling to pay the price for which these things are sold, and would have them for nothing. For how much is lettuce sold? Fifty cents, for instance. If another, then, paying fifty cents, takes the lettuce, and you, not paying it, go without them, don't imagine that he has gained any advantage over you. | 因此，如果你不願支付這些東西出售的代價，卻想白白得到它們，你就是不公且貪婪的。萵苣賣多少錢？比方說五十美分。如果另一個人付了五十美分拿走萵苣，而你不付錢就沒拿到，不要想像他佔了你的便宜。 |
For as he has the lettuce, so you have the fifty cents which you did not give. So, in the present case, you have not been invited to such a person's entertainment, because you have not paid him the price for which a supper is sold. It is sold for praise; it is sold for attendance. | 因為既然他得到了萵苣，你就擁有了你沒付出的那五十美分。因此在當前的案例中，你沒被邀請參加某人的宴會，是因為你沒有支付那頓晚餐出售的價格。它是用讚美來換的，是用隨侍來換的。 |
Give him then the value, if it is for your advantage. But if you would, at the same time, not pay the one and yet receive the other, you are insatiable, and a blockhead. Have you nothing, then, instead of the supper? Yes, indeed, you have: the not praising him, whom you don't like to praise; the not bearing with his behavior at coming in. | 如果這對你有利，那就把那價值付給他。但如果你既不想付出代價，又想得到報酬，那你就是個貪得無厭的笨蛋。那麼，難道你沒有得到任何東西來代替那頓晚餐嗎？不，你確實得到了：你不用讚美那個你不喜歡讚美的人，也不用忍受他進門時的派頭。 |
26. The will of nature may be learned from those things in which we don't distinguish from each other. For example, when our neighbor's boy breaks a cup, or the like, we are presently ready to say, "These things will happen." | 26. 自然的意志可以從那些我們不分彼此的事物中習得。例如，當鄰居的孩子打碎了一個杯子或類似的東西時，我們立刻準備好說：「這種事總會發生的。」 |
Be assured, then, that when your own cup likewise is broken, you ought to be affected just as when another's cup was broken. Apply this in like manner to greater things. Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, "This is a human accident." but if anyone's own child happens to die, it is presently, "Alas I how wretched am I!" But it should be remembered how we are affected in hearing the same thing concerning others. | 那麼請確信，當你自己的杯子碎了，你也應該像別人的杯子碎了一樣處之泰然。同樣地將此應用到更大的事情上。別人的孩子或妻子死了嗎？沒有人不會說：「這是人生常態。」但如果有人自己的孩子死了，立刻就會說：「天哪！我是多麼悲慘啊！」但我們應該記住，在聽到別人的不幸時，我們是如何反應的。 |
27. As a mark is not set up for the sake of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world. | 27. 就像設立靶子不是為了讓人射不中目標一樣，惡的本質在世界上也不存在。 |
28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you? | 28. 如果有人把你的身體隨便交給他在路上遇到的陌生人，你肯定會生氣。那麼，當你隨便把自己的心靈交給任何出言攻擊你的人，任由其混亂困惑時，難道你不感到羞愧嗎？ |
29. In every affair consider what precedes and follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin with spirit; but not having thought of the consequences, when some of them appear you will shamefully desist. | 29. 在每一件事上，先考慮前因後果，然後再著手進行。否則，你起初會很有幹勁；但由於沒有考慮後果，當後果顯現時，你會羞愧地放棄。 |
"I would conquer at the Olympic games." But consider what precedes and follows, and then, if it is for your advantage, engage in the affair. You must conform to rules, submit to a diet, refrain from dainties; exercise your body, whether you choose it or not, at a stated hour, in heat and cold; you must drink no cold water, nor sometimes even wine. | 「我想在奧林匹克運動會上奪冠。」但請考慮前因後果，然後如果這對你有利，再投入其中。你必須遵守規則、節制飲食、戒掉美味；無論你是否願意，都得在規定時間、寒暑交替中鍛鍊身體；你不能喝冷水，有時甚至不能喝酒。 |
In a word, you must give yourself up to your master, as to a physician. Then, in the combat, you may be thrown into a ditch, dislocate your arm, turn your ankle, swallow dust, be whipped, and, after all, lose the victory. | 總之，你必須把自己交給教練，就像交給醫生一樣。然後，在比賽中，你可能會被打入壕溝、手臂脫臼、扭傷腳踝、吞下塵土、被鞭打，最後甚至輸掉比賽。 |
When you have evaluated all this, if your inclination still holds, then go to war. Otherwise, take notice, you will behave like children who sometimes play like wrestlers, sometimes gladiators, sometimes blow a trumpet, and sometimes act a tragedy when they have seen and admired these shows. | 當你評估完這一切後，如果你的熱忱依然存在，那就去戰鬥。否則，要注意，你會像孩子一樣，看了這些表演心生仰慕，有時玩摔跤，有時玩角鬥士，有時吹小號，有時演悲劇。 |
Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler, at another a gladiator, now a philosopher, then an orator; but with your whole soul, nothing at all. Like an ape, you mimic all you see, and one thing after another is sure to please you, but is out of favor as soon as it becomes familiar. | 同樣地，你一會兒想當摔跤手，一會兒當角鬥士，現在當哲學家，然後當雄辯家；但在你的靈魂深處，你什麼也不是。就像猿猴一樣，你模仿看到的一切，一件事接著一件事讓你開心，但只要一熟悉，你就失去了興趣。 |
For you have never entered upon anything considerately, nor after having viewed the whole matter on all sides, or made any scrutiny into it, but rashly, and with a cold inclination. Thus some, when they have seen a philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates (though, indeed, who can speak like him?), have a mind to be philosophers too. | 因為你從未慎重地開始任何事，也沒有全面審視過問題或對其進行過調查，而是魯莽且憑著一時冷卻的熱忱。因此，有些人看到一位哲學家，聽到像尤弗拉特斯（Euphrates）那樣的人演講（雖然，誰能講得像他那樣好呢？），便也想當哲學家。 |
Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things. | 朋友，先考慮這件事是什麼，以及你自己的本性能承受什麼。如果你想當摔跤手，考慮你的肩膀、後背和的大腿；因為不同的人適合做不同的事。 |
Do you think that you can act as you do, and be a philosopher? That you can eat and drink, and be angry and discontented as you are now? You must watch, you must labor, you must get the better of certain appetites, must quit your acquaintance, be despised by your servant, be laughed at by those you meet; | 你認為你能像現在這樣行事的同時當一個哲學家嗎？你能像現在這樣吃喝、發怒和不滿嗎？你必須警醒、必須勞苦、必須克制某些慾望、必須離開你的熟人、被僕人鄙視、被路人嘲笑； |
come off worse than others in everything, in magistracies, in honors, in courts of judicature. When you have considered all these things round, approach, if you please; if, by parting with them, you have a mind to purchase equanimity, freedom, and tranquillity. | 在每一件事上，無論是在官位、榮譽還是法庭上，都比別人得到的更少。當你全面考慮了這些之後，如果你願意透過放棄這些來換取平靜、自由與安寧，那就請加入吧。 |
If not, don't come here; don't, like children, be one while a philosopher, then a publican, then an orator, and then one of Caesar's officers. These things are not consistent. You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar. | 否則，就不要來這裡；不要像孩子一樣，一會兒當哲學家，一會兒當稅吏，然後當雄辯家，最後又當凱撒的官員。這些角色是不相容的。你必須做一個純粹的人，要麼好，要麼壞。你要麼修煉自己的主導能力，要麼修煉外界事物；專注於內在或專注於外在；也就是說，要麼當一名哲學家，要麼當一個平民。 |
30. Duties are universally measured by relations. Is anyone a father? If so, it is implied that the children should take care of him, submit to him in everything, patiently listen to his reproaches, his correction. But he is a bad father. Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. | 30. 義務普遍是根據關係來衡量的。有人是父親嗎？如果是，這意味著孩子應該照顧他，在每件事上服從他，耐心聽他的指責與糾正。「但他是一個糟糕的父親。」那麼，難道你天生就有權得到一個好父親嗎？不，你只被賦予了一個「父親」。 |
Is a brother unjust? Well, keep your own situation towards him. Consider not what he does, but what you are to do to keep your own faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature. For another will not hurt you unless you please. You will then be hurt when you think you are hurt. | 兄弟不公嗎？好吧，保持你對他的本分。不要考慮他做了什麼，而要考慮你該做什麼，以保持你自己的選擇能力順應自然。因為除非你願意，否則他人無法傷害你。只有當你「認為」自己受傷時，你才會受傷。 |
In this manner, therefore, you will find, from the idea of a neighbor, a citizen, a general, the corresponding duties if you accustom yourself to contemplate the several relations. | 因此，透過這種方式，如果你習慣於思索各種關係，你就會從鄰居、公民、將軍的概念中，發現相應的義務。 |
🔍 1-30專有名詞解釋 (Explanation of Key Terms)
Enchiridion (手冊)：原意為「在手邊的東西」或「匕首」，象徵這是一本可以隨身攜帶、隨時用來對抗生活中困難的哲學指南。
Dichotomy of Control (控制二分法)：斯多葛學派的核心觀念。將世間事物分為「我們能控制的」（如內心的見解、意志、價值觀）與「我們不能控制的」（如財富、健康、他人的看法）。
Faculty of Choice (Prohairesis - 選擇能力/意志)：指人類理性的決策能力，這是斯多葛主義認為唯一真正屬於個體、且不可被剝奪的財富。
Conformable to Nature (順應自然)：並非指回到原始生活，而是指按照理性的本質（人的天性）以及宇宙運行的規律（大自然的邏輯）來生活。
Appearances (Phantasia - 表象/印象)：外界事物帶給感官的第一印象。哲學家的工作在於檢驗這些印象是否真實，而不隨之起舞。
Equanimity (平靜/不動心)：在外界風暴中保持內心平穩的狀態。
📚 1-30論述引用出處 (Citations)
主文：Epictetus, The Enchiridion (or Manual).
版本：Elizabeth Carter's translation (first published 1758). 這是西方世界最經典的英譯本之一。
歷史脈絡：愛比克泰德本人並未寫書，他的教誨是由其學生阿利安（Arrian）記錄整理成《論說集》（Discourses）與這本精簡的《手冊》。
📊 1-30核心觀念彙整表 (Summary Table)
章節內容 | 核心教誨 (Core Teaching) | 實踐建議 (Practical Advice) |
1-2 | 控制二分法 | 只專注於自己的意志，對不可控事物保持漠然。 |
3-5 | 表象與判斷 | 困擾你的是你的「見解」，而非事物本身。 |
7-9 | 人生如航行與戲劇 | 隨時準備歸還生命中的恩賜，順應角色的安排。 |
11-15 | 生活的代價 | 寧要平靜也不要財富；視外物如宴會佳餚，克制渴望。 |
16-20 | 社交與情緒 | 同情他人但不感同身受；將侮辱視為自己的判斷。 |
21-25 | 哲學的修煉 | 每日默想死亡；準備好被嘲笑；堅持內在價值勝過官職。 |
26-30 | 自然與義務 | 以看他人的眼光看自己的災難；履行關係中的道德義務。 |
自我查證 (Self-Verification)：以上翻譯已對照 Elizabeth Carter 的英譯原文，確保文字完整度。解釋部分參考了斯多葛學派的標準術語譯名。
下一步建議：這部作品共有 52 章，如果您需要後續章節（31-52）的翻譯或特定章節的深層分析，請告訴我。
繼續為您翻譯愛比克泰德《手冊》的後續章節（第 31 與 32 章）。這兩章深入探討了斯多葛學派對神靈、虔誠以及**命運預測（占卜）**的態度，強調內在判斷與外在儀式的平衡。
📘 31-32完整原文與中譯 (Full Text & Translation)
原文 (The Enchiridion - Elizabeth Carter Translation) | 中文翻譯 (Chinese Translation) |
31. Be assured that the essential property of piety towards the gods is to form right opinions concerning them, as existing and as governing the universe with goodness and justice. | 31. 請確信，對神靈虔誠的核心特質在於對祂們建立正確的見解：承認祂們存在，且正以善良與公正管理著宇宙。 |
And fix yourself in this resolution, to obey them, and yield to them, and willingly follow them in all events, as produced by the most perfect understanding. For thus you will never find fault with the gods, nor accuse them as neglecting you. | 並讓自己下定決心：服從祂們、順從祂們，並在所有事件中心甘情願地追隨祂們，將一切視為出自最完美的理解（指神的旨意）。因為唯有如此，你才永遠不會指責神靈，也不會控訴祂們忽視了你。 |
And it is not possible for this to be effected any other way than by withdrawing yourself from things not in our own control, and placing good or evil in those only which are. For if you suppose any of the things not in our own control to be either good or evil, when you are disappointed of what you wish, or incur what you would avoid, you must necessarily find fault with and blame the authors. | 除非你將自己從「無法控制的事物」中抽離，並將「善」或「惡」僅僅定義在「能控制的事物」上，否則這是不可能實現的。因為如果你認為不可控的事物有好壞之分，那麼當你未能如願以償，或遭遇你所規避的事物時，你必然會歸咎並指責這一切的創造者。 |
For every animal is naturally formed to fly and abhor things that appear hurtful, and the causes of them; and to pursue and admire those which appear beneficial, and the causes of them. It is impractical, then, that one who supposes himself to be hurt should be happy about the person who, he thinks, hurts him, just as it is impossible to be happy about the hurt itself. | 因為每一種生物天生都會逃避並厭惡那些顯得有害的事物及其成因；並追求且仰慕那些顯得有益的事物及其成因。因此，一個認為自己受了傷的人，不可能對那個他認為傷害了他的人感到愉快，就像他不可能對傷害本身感到愉快一樣。 |
Hence, also, a father is reviled by a son, when he does not impart to him the things which he takes to be good; and the supposing empire to be a good made Polynices and Eteocles mutually enemies. | 因此，當父親不分給兒子那些被視為「好」的東西時，兒子就會辱罵父親；而將「帝國」視為一種「善」，則讓波呂尼刻斯與厄忒俄克勒斯反目成仇。 |
On this account the husbandman, the sailor, the merchant, on this account those who lose wives and children, revile the gods. For where interest is, there too is piety placed. So that, whoever is careful to regulate his desires and aversions as he ought, is, by the very same means, careful of piety likewise. | 正因如此，農夫、水手、商人，以及那些失去妻兒的人，都會辱罵神靈。因為利益所在之處，就是虔誠所在之處。所以，凡是留心依法調節自己慾望與厭惡的人，同樣也在留心於虔誠。 |
But it is also incumbent on everyone to offer libations and sacrifices and first fruits, conformably to the customs of his country, with purity, and not in a slovenly manner, nor negligently, nor sparingly, nor beyond his ability. | 但每個人也都有責任依照本國的習俗，以純潔的心、不邋遢、不疏忽、不吝嗇，也不超出自己能力的方式，獻上奠祭、祭品和初熟的果實。 |
32. When you have recourse to divination, remember that you know not what the event will be, and you come to learn it of the diviner; but of what nature it is you know before you come, at least if you are a philosopher. | 32. 當你求助於占卜時，請記住你並不知道結果會是什麼，所以才來向占卜者請教；但如果你是個哲學家，在來之前你就已經知道那結果的「本質」是什麼了。 |
For if it is among the things not in our own control, it can by no means be either good or evil. Don't, therefore, bring either desire or aversion with you to the diviner (else you will approach him trembling), but first acquire a distinct knowledge that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be, for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder. | 因為如果那屬於我們無法控制的事物，它絕不可能是「善」或「惡」。因此，去見占卜者時不要帶著渴望或厭惡（否則你會顫抖著走近他），而要先明確地認知到：任何事件（無論其形式如何）都是中性的，且與你無關。因為你有權力正確地利用任何結果，且無人能阻礙這一點。 |
Then come with confidence to the gods, as your counselors, and afterwards, when any counsel is given you, remember what counselors you have assumed, and whose advice you will neglect if you disobey. | 接著，帶著對神靈的信心（將其視為你的顧問）前往；隨後，當你得到任何建議時，請記住你請教的是誰，如果你不服從，你忽視的是誰的建議。 |
Come to divination, as Socrates prescribed, in cases of which the whole consideration relates to the event, and in which no opportunities are afforded by reason, or any other art, to discover the thing proposed to be learned. | 正如蘇格拉底所建議的，只有在整個問題完全關乎「結果」，且理性或其他技術都無法提供線索去發現你想知道的事情時，才去占卜。 |
When, therefore, it is our duty to share the danger of a friend or of our country, we ought not to consult the oracle whether we will share it with them or not. | 因此，當我們有義務與朋友或國家共擔危險時，我們不應該諮詢神諭來決定是否要與他們共患難。 |
For, though the diviner should forewarn you that the victims are unfavorable, this means no more than that either death or mutilation or exile is portended. But we have reason within us, and it directs, even with these hazards, to the greater diviner, the Pythian god, who cast out of the temple the person who gave no assistance to his friend while another was murdering him. | 因為，即使占卜者預警祭兆不詳，那也不過預示著死亡、殘疾或流放。但我們內在擁有「理性」，即便面對這些危險，它也會引領我們去聽從那位更偉大的占卜者——皮提亞之神。祂曾將一個在朋友遭謀殺時袖手旁觀的人趕出神廟。 |
🔍 31-32專有名詞解釋 (Explanation of Key Terms)
Piety (虔誠/敬神)：在斯多葛觀點中，虔誠不是迷信或恐懼，而是認知到宇宙由神聖理性（Logos）管理，並心甘情願地接受命運。
Polynices and Eteocles (波呂尼刻斯與厄忒俄克勒斯)：希臘神話中俄狄浦斯王（Oedipus）的雙胞胎兒子。他們為了爭奪王位（外在的「善」）而互相殘殺。這被斯多葛學派用來例證「追求錯誤的外在事物會導致道德崩潰」。
Divination (占卜)：古代人透過祭品、星象或神諭來預知未來的方法。
Indifferent (中性的/無關緊要的)：指那些不在我們控制範圍內的事物（如生死、財富、健康）。它們本身不具備道德意義上的「好」或「壞」，其價值取決於我們如何利用它們。
Pythian God (皮提亞之神)：指阿波羅，因其德爾菲（Delphi）神廟的祭司被稱為「皮提亞」。這裡強調的是：比起預測未來的技術，基本的道德義務（如救助朋友）是神更看重的「大預言」。
📚 31-32論述引用出處 (Citations)
主文引用：Epictetus, The Enchiridion (Chapters 31-32).
英譯本來源：Elizabeth Carter, The Moral Discourses of Epictetus, 1758.
神話背景：波呂尼刻斯與厄忒俄克勒斯的故事出自埃斯庫羅斯的悲劇《七將攻忒拜》（Seven Against Thebes）。
蘇格拉底軼事：蘇格拉底對占卜的看法在色諾芬的《回憶蘇格拉底》（Memorabilia）中有詳細記載，這也是愛比克泰德此處論點的基礎。
📊 31-32核心觀念彙整表 (Summary Table)
主題 | 錯誤的認知 (Vulgar View) | 哲學的認知 (Philosophical View) |
神靈的本質 | 認為神靈若不賜予利益或保護，就是不公。 | 認為神是公正的，其意志體現在自然的運作中。 |
虔誠的來源 | 建立在利益交換（利害關係）上。 | 建立在正確的判斷與對不可控事物的放手上。 |
占卜的目的 | 為了避開凶兆、追求好運（帶著顫抖與恐懼）。 | 為了了解未來以便提前準備，並將結果轉化為「善」。 |
道德義務 vs 預兆 | 看到凶兆就逃避義務。 | 即使預兆不詳（預示死亡），仍堅持執行道德義務。 |
外在儀式 | 隨意敷衍或過度鋪張。 | 依法度、純潔且量力而行。 |
自我查證 (Self-Verification)：
波呂尼刻斯兄弟：確認其為王位爭奪的典型案例。
阿波羅驅逐案：確認希臘歷史中有關於阿波羅神諭處罰「見死不救者」的紀錄，以此強調行為正義優先於祭祀儀式。
翻譯準確度：對照 Elizabeth Carter 的英譯本，確保保留了其古典散文的嚴肅語感。
下一步建議：
這兩章是《手冊》中極具宗教色彩的部分，將斯多葛學派的倫理學提升到了與宇宙神性合一的高度。如果您準備好繼續探討如何應對社交場合與大眾目光（第 33 章及以後），請隨時告訴我！
這完成了愛比克泰德（Epictetus）《手冊》（The Enchiridion）的最後一部分（第 34 章至第 52 章）。這部分包含了斯多葛學派最著名的隱喻，如「兩隻把手」以及對「進步者」特徵的詳細描述。
這段文字出自古希臘斯多葛學派哲學家**愛比克泰德（Epictetus）**的《手冊》（Enchiridion）第 33 條。這是一份關於個人修養、社交禮儀與內心自律的詳細指南。
以下為原文與中文的並列翻譯：
📘 33完整原文與中譯 (Full Text & Translation)
原文 (Original English) | 中文翻譯 (Chinese Translation) |
33. Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself, which you may keep both alone and in company. | 33. 立即為自己規定某種特質與處事準則，無論是獨處還是與人交往時都能持守。 |
Be for the most part silent, or speak merely what is necessary, and in few words. We may, however, enter, though sparingly, into discourse sometimes when occasion calls for it, but not on any of the common subjects, of gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or feasts, the vulgar topics of conversation; but principally not of men, so as either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons. | 大部分時間保持沉默，或僅在必要時發言，且言簡意賅。然而，當場合需要時，我們也可以參與談話，但要節制，且不要聊那些庸俗的常見話題，如角鬥士、賽馬、體育冠軍或筵席；尤其不要評斷他人，無論是責備、讚美或是進行比較。 |
If you are able, then, by your own conversation bring over that of your company to proper subjects; but, if you happen to be taken among strangers, be silent. | 如果你有能力，就透過自己的談話將同伴引導至適當的主題上；但如果你身處陌生人之中，請保持沉默。 |
Don't allow your laughter be much, nor on many occasions, nor profuse. | 不要經常大笑，不要在多種場合大笑，也不要放聲狂笑。 |
Avoid swearing, if possible, altogether; if not, as far as you are able. | 如果可能的話，完全避免發誓；如果做不到，也要盡力而為。 |
Avoid public and vulgar entertainments; but, if ever an occasion calls you to them, keep your attention upon the stretch, that you may not imperceptibly slide into vulgar manners. For be assured that if a person be ever so sound himself, yet, if his companion be infected, he who converses with him will be infected likewise. | 避開公共且庸俗的娛樂活動；但若場合需要你參加，請高度集中注意力，以免在不知不覺中滑向庸俗的習氣。因為請確信，即使一個人本身再健全，如果他的夥伴被感染了，與之交往的人也同樣會被感染。 |
Provide things relating to the body no further than mere use; as meat, drink, clothing, house, family. But strike off and reject everything relating to show and delicacy. | 對於身體所需的事物，如食物、飲水、衣物、住房、家僕，只需滿足基本用途即可。至於任何與炫耀和奢靡有關的事物，都要一概摒棄和拒絕。 |
As far as possible, before marriage, keep yourself pure from familiarities with women, and, if you indulge them, let it be lawfully. But don't therefore be troublesome and full of reproofs to those who use these liberties, nor frequently boast that you yourself don't. | 婚前應盡可能在男女關係上保持純潔；若要進行，也應合乎法規。但不要因此就對那些行使這種自由的人感到厭煩或橫加指責，也不要頻繁誇耀自己並不如此。 |
If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don't make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: " He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these." | 如果有人告訴你某人在背後說你壞話，不要為那些言論辯解，只需回答：「他肯定還不知道我其他的缺點，否則他就不會只提到這幾點了。」 |
It is not necessary for you to appear often at public spectacles; but if ever there is a proper occasion for you to be there, don't appear more solicitous for anyone than for yourself; that is, wish things to be only just as they are, and him only to conquer who is the conqueror, for thus you will meet with no hindrance. | 你沒有必要經常出現在公共觀賞活動中；但若有合適的場合需要你在場，不要表現得關心他人勝過關心自己；也就是說，只希望事情按其原樣發生，誰贏了就讓誰贏，這樣你就不會遇到障礙。 |
But abstain entirely from declamations and derision and violent emotions. And when you come away, don't discourse a great deal on what has passed, and what does not contribute to your own amendment. For it would appear by such discourse that you were immoderately struck with the show. | 但要完全杜絕大聲叫囂、嘲笑和激烈的情緒。當你離開時，不要過多談論剛發生的、對你自我完善毫無幫助的事。因為那樣的談話會顯示出你被那場表演過度吸引了。 |
Go not [of your own accord] to the rehearsals of any authors, nor appear [at them] readily. But, if you do appear, keep your gravity and sedateness, and at the same time avoid being morose. | 不要主動去聽作者們的朗誦會，也不要輕易現身。但如果你去了，請保持莊重與沉穩，同時也要避免顯得孤僻古怪。 |
When you are going to confer with anyone, and particularly of those in a superior station, represent to yourself how Socrates or Zeno would behave in such a case, and you will not be at a loss to make a proper use of whatever may occur. | 當你要與人商議時，特別是與地位較高的人，請想像蘇格拉底或芝諾在這種情況下會如何表現，這樣你就能泰然處之，妥善應對發生的任何狀況。 |
When you are going to any of the people in power, represent to yourself that you will not find him at home; that you will not be admitted; that the doors will not be opened to you; that he will take no notice of you. | 當你要去拜訪權貴時，請心裡先預設：你可能見不到他；你可能不被允許進入；門可能不會為你開啟；他可能根本不理睬你。 |
If, with all this, it is your duty to go, bear what happens, and never say [to yourself], " It was not worth so much." For this is vulgar, and like a man dazed by external things. | 如果在這種情況下，去拜訪仍是你的職責，那就承受所發生的一切，且永遠不要對自己說「這不值得」。因為這是庸俗的想法，就像一個被外物迷惑的人。 |
In parties of conversation, avoid a frequent and excessive mention of your own actions and dangers. For, however agreeable it may be to yourself to mention the risks you have run, it is not equally agreeable to others to hear your adventures. | 在社交聚會中，避免頻繁且過度地提及自己的行為與經歷過的危險。因為，儘管你自己談論冒過的險可能覺得很愉快，但他人聽你的冒險事蹟未必同樣愉快。 |
Avoid, likewise, an endeavor to excite laughter. For this is a slippery point, which may throw you into vulgar manners, and, besides, may be apt to lessen you in the esteem of your acquaintance. | 同樣，也要避免刻意引人發笑。因為這是一個危險的誘惑，可能會讓你陷入庸俗的舉止，此外，還容易降低你在熟人心目中的地位。 |
Approaches to indecent discourse are likewise dangerous. Whenever, therefore, anything of this sort happens, if there be a proper opportunity, rebuke him who makes advances that way; or, at least, by silence and blushing and a forbidding look, show yourself to be displeased by such talk. | 接近下流的談話同樣是危險的。因此，每當發生這種情況時，如果有合適的機會，請斥責那個挑起這類話題的人；或者至少透過沉默、臉紅和嚴厲的神色，表現出你對這種談話的反感。 |
🔍 33專有名詞解釋 (Explanation of Key Terms)
Stoicism (斯多葛主義)：古希臘哲學學派，強調理性、自律以及區分「自己能控制的事」與「不能控制的事」。本文即為該學派的行為指南。
Socrates (蘇格拉底)：古希臘著名哲學家，被視為西方哲學的奠基者，斯多葛學派將其視為智慧與道德的典範。
Zeno (芝諾)：指塞浦路斯的芝諾（Zeno of Citium），斯多葛學派的創始人。
Enchiridion (手冊)：原意為「隨身的小武器」，引申為愛比克泰德的教導彙編，旨在指導日常生活中的道德實踐。
📚 33論述引用出處 (Citations)
Author: Epictetus (愛比克泰德)
Work: The Enchiridion (手冊), Chapter 33.
Translator Reference: Based on Elizabeth Carter's classic translation (1758), commonly used in academic and philosophical study.
📊 33核心觀念彙整表 (Summary Table)
修養類別 | 建議行為 | 應避免的行為 |
言語社交 | 言簡意賅、引導話題至正軌 | 談論庸俗話題（競賽、美食）、評斷他人、發誓 |
情緒控制 | 保持莊重、沉穩、適度羞赧（對下流話） | 大笑、叫囂、嘲諷、激烈情緒 |
生活物質 | 僅求基本用途（食衣住） | 追求炫耀、精緻奢華 |
處事態度 | 模仿智者（如蘇格拉底）、接受現實（預期受挫） | 抱怨「不值得」、炫耀個人冒險、刻意搞笑 |
請問還有其他段落需要我翻譯或進一步解釋的嗎？
📘 34-52完整原文與中譯 (Full Text & Translation)
原文 (The Enchiridion - Elizabeth Carter Translation) | 中文翻譯 (Chinese Translation) |
34. If you are struck by the appearance of any promised pleasure, guard yourself against being hurried away by it; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. | 34. 如果你被任何許諾快樂的表象所打動，要提防自己不要被它捲走；讓這件事等候你的閒暇，為自己爭取一些延遲。 |
Then bring to your mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will be glad and applaud yourself if you abstain. | 然後在腦海中對比兩個時間點：一個是你享受快樂的時刻，另一個則是你在享受之後會感到懊悔與自責的時刻；並將「如果你節制，你將會如何快樂並自我讚許」放在這些念頭的對立面。 |
And even though it should appear to you a seasonable gratification, take heed that its enticing, and agreeable and attractive force may not subdue you; but set in opposition to this how much better it is to be conscious of having gained so great a victory. | 即使這看起來是一個適時的滿足，也要留心它誘人、愜意且具吸引力的力量不要征服你；相反地，要對比那種「意識到自己贏得了如此偉大勝利」的感覺是多麼美好。 |
35. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; | 35. 當你根據清晰的判斷認為某件事該做而去做時，絕不要迴避被他人看見，即使世人可能會對此產生錯誤的臆測。 |
for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly? | 因為，如果你做得不對，應當迴避的是行為本身；但如果你做得對，又何必害怕那些錯誤指責你的人呢？ |
36. As the proposition, "Either it is day or it is night," is extremely proper for a disjunctive argument, but quite improper in a conjunctive one, so, at a feast, to choose the largest share is very suitable to the bodily appetite, but utterly inconsistent with the social spirit of an entertainment. | 36. 就像「不是白天就是黑夜」這個命題，在「選言判斷」中非常恰當，但在「聯言判斷」中卻很不妥；同樣地，在宴會上選擇最大的一份雖然非常符合身體的胃口，但與宴會的社交精神完全不符。 |
When you eat with another, then, remember not only the value of those things which are set before you to the body, but the value of that behavior which ought to be observed towards the person who gives the entertainment. | 因此，當你與他人共餐時，記住不僅要考慮擺在你面前的食物對身體的價值，還要考慮對宴會主辦者應有的禮儀價值。 |
37. If you have assumed any character above your strength, you have both made an ill figure in that and quitted one which you might have supported. | 37. 如果你承擔了超出你能力的性格或角色，你既在該角色中表現拙劣，也放棄了那個你原本可以勝任的角色。 |
38. When walking, you are careful not to step on a nail or turn your foot; so likewise be careful not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. And, if we were to guard against this in every action, we should undertake the action with the greater safety. | 38. 走路時，你會小心不踩到釘子或扭傷腳；同樣地，也要小心不要傷害你心靈的主導能力（理智）。如果我們在每一項行動中都能防範這一點，我們進行行動時會更加穩當。 |
39. The body is to everyone the measure of the possessions proper for it, just as the foot is of the shoe. If, therefore, you stop at this, you will keep the measure; | 39. 對每個人來說，身體是衡量財產多寡的尺度，就像腳是衡量鞋子大小的尺度一樣。因此，如果你以此為限，你就能維持尺度； |
but if you move beyond it, you must necessarily be carried forward, as down a cliff; as in the case of a shoe, if you go beyond its fitness to the foot, it comes first to be gilded, then purple, and then studded with jewels. For to that which once exceeds a due measure, there is no bound. | 但如果你越過了它，你就必然會被推著向前，就像墜落懸崖一樣。以鞋子為例，一旦超過了腳的適配度，它會先變成鍍金的，然後是紫色的，最後是鑲嵌珠寶的。因為一旦超過了應有的尺度，就再也沒有止境了。 |
40. Women from fourteen years old are flattered with the title of "mistresses" by the men. Therefore, perceiving that they are regarded only as qualified to give the men pleasure, they begin to adorn themselves, and in that to place ill their hopes. | 40. 女子從十四歲起就被男子冠以「女主人」的頭銜奉承。因此，當她們察覺自己僅被視為提供男子愉悅的對象時，她們便開始裝扮自己，並將希望錯誤地寄託於此。 |
We should, therefore, fix our attention on making them sensible that they are valued for the appearance of decent, modest and discreet behavior. | 因此，我們應該致力於讓她們意識到，她們之所以受到重視，是因為表現出端莊、謙虛與謹慎的行為。 |
41. It is a mark of want of genius to spend much time in things relating to the body, as to be long in our exercises, in eating and drinking, and in the discharge of other animal functions. These should be done incidentally and slightly, and our whole attention be engaged in the care of the understanding. | 41. 花費大量時間在關乎身體的事情上，是缺乏天賦（或靈性）的標誌，例如長時間鍛鍊、吃喝以及排泄等動物性功能。這些事應當只是附帶且輕微地完成，而我們的全部注意力應當投入到對理解力的照料中。 |
42. When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. | 42. 當有人傷害你或說你壞話時，記住他的言行是基於他認為那是他的義務。他不可能遵循你認為正確的事，而只能遵循他自己認為正確的事。 |
Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him." | 因此，如果他是根據錯誤的表象做判斷，受損的是他，因為被欺騙的也是他。如果有人把真命題當作假的，命題本身並未受損，受損的是那個被欺騙的人。從這些原則出發，你就能溫和地忍受謾罵你的人，因為你在每次遇到這種情況時都會說：「對他而言，事情看起來就是那樣。」 |
43. Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot. If your brother acts unjustly, don't lay hold on the action by the handle of his injustice, for by that it cannot be carried; but by the opposite, that he is your brother, that he was brought up with you; and thus you will lay hold on it, as it is to be carried. | 43. 任何事物都有兩隻把手，一隻是可以拿得起的，另一隻是拿不起來的。如果你的兄弟行事不公，不要抓住他「不公」的那隻把手，因為那隻把手是拎不動這件事的；而要抓住相對的那隻——他是你的兄弟，他是和你一起長大的；這樣你就能拎起這件事了。 |
44. These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style. | 44. 這些推理是缺乏邏輯聯繫的：「我比你富，所以我比你高尚」；「我比你口才好，所以我比你優秀」。正確的聯繫應該是：「我比你富，所以我的財產比你多」；「我比你口才好，所以我的文風比你好」。但歸根結底，你既不是財產，也不是文風。 |
45. Does anyone bathe in a mighty little time? Don't say that he does it ill, but in a mighty little time. Does anyone drink a great quantity of wine? Don't say that he does ill, but that he drinks a great quantity. | 45. 有人洗澡洗得飛快嗎？不要說他洗得「不好」，而要說他洗得「飛快」。有人喝了很多酒嗎？不要說他做得「不好」，而要說他「喝了很多」。 |
For, unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill? Thus you will not run the hazard of assenting to any appearances but such as you fully comprehend. | 因為，除非你完全理解某人行事的原則，否則你怎麼知道他做得不好呢？這樣你就不會冒險去認同任何你尚未完全理解的表象。 |
46. Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. | 46. 絕不要自稱為哲學家，也不要在未受教導的人面前大談理論，而要依照理論去行動。例如在宴會上，不要談論人該如何進食，而要吃得像樣。 |
For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. | 記住，蘇格拉底也是這樣完全避免任何招搖的。當有人來找他，希望他引薦哲學家時，他便引薦了他們；他非常能忍受被忽視。 |
So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. | 因此，如果未受教導的人談論起哲學理論，你要保持沉默。因為立刻吐出你還沒消化的東西是非常危險的。 |
And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested. | 如果有人說你一竅不通而你並不惱火，那麼你就可以確定你已經開始進入狀態了。因為羊不會把草吐出來給牧人看牠們吃了多少，而是內化吸收後，在外在產出羊毛與奶。因此，你也不要向未受教者展示理論，而要展示理論被消化後所產出的行為。 |
47. When you have brought yourself to supply the necessities of your body at a small price, don't pique yourself upon it; nor, if you drink water, be saying upon every occasion, "I drink water." | 47. 當你學會用低廉的代價滿足身體需求時，不要為此自鳴得意；如果你喝的是水，不要隨時隨地說「我喝的是水」。 |
But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we. But if at any time you would inure yourself by exercise to labor, and bearing hard trials, do it for your own sake, and not for the world; don't grasp statues, but, when you are violently thirsty, take a little cold water in your mouth, and spurt it out and tell nobody. | 而是先考慮一下貧窮的人比我們更加節省且更能忍受艱辛。如果你想透過鍛鍊來使自己習慣於勞苦與艱難的考驗，是為了你自己，而不是為了展示給世人看；不要去抱冰冷的石像，而是在你極度口渴時，含一口涼水再吐出來，且不告訴任何人。 |
48. The condition and characteristic of a vulgar person, is, that he never expects either benefit or hurt from himself, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is, that he expects all hurt and benefit from himself. | 48. 凡人（未受教者）的狀態與特徵是：他從不期待從自己身上獲得利益或傷害，而總是期待來自外界。哲學家的狀態與特徵是：他所有的傷害與利益都期待來自自己。 |
The marks of a proficient are, that he censures no one, praises no one, blames no one, accuses no one, says nothing concerning himself as being anybody, or knowing anything: when he is, in any instance, hindered or restrained, he accuses himself; | 修煉者（進步者）的標誌是：他不指責任何人、不讚揚任何人、不埋怨任何人、不控告任何人，也不談論自己是一個多麼了不起或博學的人；當他在任何情況下受阻或受限時，他會歸咎於自己； |
and, if he is praised, he secretly laughs at the person who praises him; and, if he is censured, he makes no defense. But he goes about with the caution of sick or injured people, dreading to move anything that is set right, before it is perfectly fixed. | 如果受到讚揚，他在心底嘲笑讚揚他的人；如果受到指責，他不做辯解。他的行動就像傷病者一樣謹慎，唯恐在心靈的秩序尚未完全固定前，就驚動了那些剛調整好的部分。 |
He suppresses all desire in himself; he transfers his aversion to those things only which thwart the proper use of our own faculty of choice; the exertion of his active powers towards anything is very gentle; if he appears stupid or ignorant, he does not care, and, in a word, he watches himself as an enemy, and one in ambush. | 他抑制自己所有的慾望；他將厭惡僅轉移到那些阻礙我們正當行使選擇能力的事物上；他對任何事物的追求都非常溫和；如果他顯得愚蠢或無知，他並不在乎；總之，他像監視敵人或潛伏者一樣監視著自己。 |
49. When anyone shows himself overly confident in ability to understand and interpret the works of Chrysippus, say to yourself, " Unless Chrysippus had written obscurely, this person would have had no subject for his vanity. | 49. 當有人表現出對理解和詮釋克律西普斯著作的過度自信時，對自己說：「除非克律西普斯寫得晦澀難懂，否則這個人就沒有虛榮的資本了。」 |
But what do I desire? To understand nature and follow her. I ask, then, who interprets her, and, finding Chrysippus does, I have recourse to him. I don't understand his writings. I seek, therefore, one to interpret them." So far there is nothing to value myself upon. | 但我追求的是什麼？是理解自然並追隨她。於是我問：誰能詮釋她？發現克律西普斯可以，我便求助於他。我不理解他的著作，所以我尋求一位詮釋者。到目前為止，還沒有什麼值得自誇的。 |
And when I find an interpreter, what remains is to make use of his instructions. This alone is the valuable thing. But, if I admire nothing but merely the interpretation, what do I become more than a grammarian instead of a philosopher? | 當我找到一位詮釋者後，剩下的就是運用他的指導。這才是唯一有價值的東西。但如果我崇拜的僅僅是那種詮釋本身，那我除了變成一個文法學家而非哲學家之外，還有什麼呢？ |
Except, indeed, that instead of Homer I interpret Chrysippus. When anyone, therefore, desires me to read Chrysippus to him, I rather blush when I cannot show my actions agreeable and consonant to his discourse. | 唯一不同的只是我詮釋的是克律西普斯而非荷馬。因此，當有人要求我讀克律西普斯給他聽時，如果我的行為不能展現出與其論述相符的一致性，我會感到臉紅。 |
50. Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. | 50. 無論你為自己制定了什麼道德準則，都要遵守它們，將其視為法律，彷彿違反其中任何一條都是不敬。不要理會別人對你的評價，因為歸根結底，那與你無關。 |
How long, then, will you put off thinking yourself worthy of the highest improvements and follow the distinctions of reason? You have received the philosophical theorems, with which you ought to be familiar, and you have been familiar with them. What other master, then, do you wait for, to throw upon that the delay of reforming yourself? | 那麼，你還要推遲多久才肯認為自己配得上最高的進步，並遵循理性的辨析？你已經領受了那些你應當熟悉且已經熟悉的哲學理論。那麼，你還在等哪位老師，好把自我革新的推遲歸咎於他呢？ |
You are no longer a boy, but a grown man. If, therefore, you will be negligent and slothful, and always add procrastination to procrastination, purpose to purpose, and fix day after day in which you will attend to yourself, you will insensibly continue without proficiency, and, living and dying, persevere in being one of the vulgar. | 你不再是個孩子，而是一個成年人了。因此，如果你繼續疏忽與怠惰，總是在拖延之後又拖延，在一個目標之後又換一個目標，一天又一天地決定何時才要關注自己，你將會在不知不覺中毫無進步，無論生前死後都始終只是一個凡夫俗子。 |
This instant, then, think yourself worthy of living as a man grown up, and a proficient. Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, or glory or disgrace, is set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off. | 那麼就在此刻，認為自己配得上作為一個成年人與修煉者來生活。凡是顯得最好的事物，對你來說都應是神聖不可侵犯的法律。如果痛苦或快樂、榮耀或恥辱擺在面前，記住現在就是戰鬥的時刻，奧林匹亞賽會已經開始，不容推遲。 |
By once being defeated and giving way, proficiency is lost, or by the contrary preserved. Thus Socrates became perfect, improving himself by everything, attending to nothing but reason. And though you are not yet a Socrates, you ought, however, to live as one desirous of becoming a Socrates. | 一次失敗與退縮，進步就會喪失；反之則能保全。蘇格拉底就是這樣變得完美的——利用每一件事來提升自己，除了理性之外不聽從任何東西。儘管你還不是蘇格拉底，但你應當像一個渴望成為蘇格拉底的人那樣生活。 |
51. The first and most necessary topic in philosophy is that of the use of moral theorems, such as, "We ought not to lie;" the second is that of demonstrations, such as, "What is the origin of our obligation not to lie;" the third gives strength and articulation to the other two, such as, "What is the origin of this is a demonstration." | 51. 哲學的第一個且最必要的課題是「道德理論的運用」，例如「我們不應撒謊」；第二個是「論證」，例如「我們不撒謊的義務來源是什麼」；第三個則是賦予前兩者力量與清晰度的，例如「為什麼這是一個論證」。 |
For what is demonstration? What is consequence? What contradiction? What truth? What falsehood? The third topic, then, is necessary on the account of the second, and the second on the account of the first. But the most necessary, and that whereon we ought to rest, is the first. | 因為什麼是論證？什麼是推論？什麼是矛盾？什麼是真？什麼是假？因此，第三個課題是為了第二個，第二個則是為了第一個。但最必要且我們應當安身立命的，是第一個。 |
But we act just on the contrary. For we spend all our time on the third topic, and employ all our diligence about that, and entirely neglect the first. Therefore, at the same time that we lie, we are immediately prepared to show how it is demonstrated that lying is not right. | 但我們的行為恰恰相反。我們把所有的時間花在第三個課題上，全副精力投入其中，卻完全忽視了第一個。因此，當我們撒謊的同時，卻能立刻展現出該如何論證「撒謊是不對的」。 |
52. Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand: | 52. 在所有場合，我們都應隨時準備好這些格言： |
"Conduct me, Jove, and you, 0 Destiny, Wherever your decrees have fixed my station." - Cleanthes | 「導引我吧，宙斯，還有您，命運之神，無論您的法令將我安置在何處。」 ——克蘭斯 |
"I follow cheerfully; and, did I not, Wicked and wretched, I must follow still. Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven." - Euripides, Frag. 965 | 「我心悅誠服地跟隨；若我不肯，我依然是邪惡而悲慘地，必須跟隨。凡是能適當地順從命運的人，在世人眼中即是智者，且通曉上天的律法。」 ——歐里庇得斯（殘篇 965） |
And this third: "0 Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be. Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot." - Plato's Crito and Apology | 第三句：「噢，克力同，如果神靈樂意如此，那就這樣吧。阿尼圖斯和美雷托斯確實可以殺死我，但他們傷害不了我。」 ——柏拉圖《克力同篇》與《申辯篇》 |
🔍 34-52專有名詞解釋 (Explanation of Key Terms)
Ruling Faculty (Hegemonikon / 主導能力)：斯多葛學派認為靈魂中負責判斷、同意、慾望與衝動的核心部分，即理智的統治地位。
Disjunctive vs. Conjunctive Argument (選言 vs. 聯言)：邏輯術語。選言指「或」（P or Q），聯言指「且」（P and Q）。愛比克泰德以此比喻行為在不同語境下的適用性。
The Two Handles (兩隻把手)：著名的斯多葛隱喻。建議我們遇到困難（如家人的不公）時，選擇那個能讓我們保持心靈平靜與道德義務的角度（ handle）去思考，而非選擇那個讓我們感到憤怒的角度。
Vulgar Person (Idiotēs / 凡人)：指未受哲學訓練、價值觀完全被外界牽動的人。
Proficient (Prokoptōn / 進步者)：指正在修煉哲學、尚未成為完美「智者」但在正確道路上努力的人。
Chrysippus (克律西普斯)：斯多葛學派第三任首領，以建立極其複雜精密的邏輯體系聞名。
The Olympiad (奧林匹亞賽會)：比喻人生是一場正在進行、不可推遲的道德競賽，每一刻的選擇都決定了勝負。
📚34-52論述引用出處 (Citations)
主文引用：Epictetus, The Enchiridion (Chapters 34-52).
第 52 章引用：
克蘭斯 (Cleanthes)：斯多葛學派第二任首領。
歐里庇得斯 (Euripides)：古希臘三大悲劇作家之一。
柏拉圖 (Plato)：引述蘇格拉底在獄中及法庭上的名言。
背景參考：A.A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, 2002.
📊 34-52核心觀念彙整表 (Summary Table)
主題 | 斯多葛的教導 (Stoic Instruction) | 生活應用 (Life Application) |
面對誘惑 | 快樂的表象與後悔的對比。 | 衝動購物前先等兩天，想像擁有後的空虛。 |
自我限度 | 財產應以身體需求為度（如鞋之於腳）。 | 追求生活品質而非虛榮，避免陷入「鑲金鑲鑽」的無止境慾望。 |
應對侮辱 | 認知到對方是基於他的錯誤見解。 | 默唸「對他而言，事情看起來就是那樣」來平息憤怒。 |
兩隻把手 | 選擇讓自己能履行義務的角度。 | 當親人吵架時，記住「他是親人」而非「他很無理」。 |
修煉者的特徵 | 所有的損益皆來自內心判斷。 | 停止在社交媒體上尋求讚美，將指責視為自我修正的機會。 |
知行合一 | 理論的運用優於理論的辯證。 | 少讀兩本成功學書籍，多做一件能體現自律的事。 |
終極順服 | 接受命運，因為傷害不了你的靈魂。 | 即使面對不可逆的困境，也要保持意志的完整。 |
自我查證 (Self-Verification)：
第 40 章：關於女子十四歲與「女主人」頭銜的描述，精確反映了當時羅馬與希臘社會的婚嫁習俗與斯多葛對女性教育的重視。
第 43 章：確認「兩隻把手」為愛比克泰德原創的最著名隱喻之一。
結尾引用：確認 52 章的三段引用分別代表了斯多葛學派對神、命運與死亡的最終態度。
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