清晨先对自己说

英文译本

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

中文译文

每天清晨先对自己说：今天我会遇到爱管闲事的人、忘恩负义的人、傲慢的人、欺诈的人、嫉妒的人、不合群的人。他们之所以如此，都是因为不懂得什么是善、什么是恶。但我已经看清，善的本性是美的，恶的本性是丑的；也看清了做错事的人的本性与我相近，不只是同血同种，而是同样分有理性、分有同一份神性。所以他们谁也伤害不了我，因为没有人能把丑恶强加在我身上；我也不能对我的同类发怒，不能恨他。因为我们生来就是为了合作，像双脚，像双手，像眼睑，像上下两排牙齿。彼此作对是违反自然的；而恼怒和背过身去，就是在彼此作对。