罗马皇帝Marcus-Aurelius及其名言.doc

罗马皇帝Marcus Aurelius 在古罗马帝国衰退前期统治这个公元160年期间的欧亚大国十六年。他就是2000年电影Gladiators 中那个即将死去的老人。他遗留下来的一本笔记“感悟”，或者说“给自己的教训”，我读来觉得和佛陀的教诲很相似，也和中国的老子道德经不谋而合。他的思想继承了古希腊的精神，而古希腊的哲学思想，和古中华的哲学思想又是非常相似的。
Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antonius) was a Roman Emperor, who lived and ruled the Roman Empire in the 1th century AD. He is the dying Emperor in the 2000 movie Gladiator, who supposedly favors his most trusted General Maximus, rather than his own son Commodus, to inherit his post. Marcus Aurelius is most famously known for his private notebook known as the Meditations, or Words to Myself. Here are some quotes from this Emperor of Roman Empire:
· "Let it be your constant habit to look into the motivations behind people's actions, and see what they would be, as often as it is possible; and to make this habit the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
让自己不断地留意别人的动机是什么，更有意义的是，首先练习观察自己的动机。
· "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
接受无法改变的事物，爱缘份带到你身边的人，且用全心。

· “An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.”
愤怒的脸色是反自然的。如果经常暴躁发脾气，美丽会渐渐消失，并且最终无法挽回。
· "Look always at the whole picture, rather than paying attention only to the surface or parts of it.”
尽量拭着把握整体的局面，而非只注意表面或局部。
· "Everything that happens does so as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
一切所发生的是合乎其因的，虽然不尽合理。如果你小心观查，你会发现是如此。
· "Execute every act of your life as though it were your last. Never anxious, never apathetic, never with an attitude - here is the perfection of character.”
像做最后一件事一样做你的每件事。不烦燥，不痲木，亦不带有偏见。
· "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today helps you deal with the present."
不要被不可预测的未来烦扰。如果你无法躲避，你会用你面对现在的理性去面对它。
· "Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter and hurt: do not think, 'This is a misfortune,' but 'to suffer with it worthily is a good fortune.”
无事不是自然给于你的能力所及范围内不可承受的。记住，如果任何事令你感到痛苦，不要想到:这是不辛。而是想到：忍辱负重是好运。
· "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life."
没有比全面的，毫无偏见地调查研究生活中你所意识到的每一件事更能开拓你的视野。
· "Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is colored by the thoughts, and thoughts are conditioned by your experiences. To love, and therefore to grow in intelligence is to overcome, or die to the thoughts of yesterday of yester-year, so that your perfect and beautiful soul is once again un-veiled."
你的习惯性思维就是你心态的格调。因为灵魂是被思想涂染的，思想是被你的经历刻化的。爱和智慧的成长需天天去掉昨天的想法，过去的情愁怨恨，这样你的美丽的灵魂便会重新显现。
· “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to overcome at any moment.”
如果你因外面的事物烦恼，痛苦多半是你自己的看法引起的，你有权任何时候超越它。
· "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: happiness (eudaimonia) is entirely dependent upon correctly examining one’s impressions and judgments."
你的思想的质量决定你的心态。开心完全取决于是否全面地看待人和事物。
· "The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
宇宙的布局和个人的布局只不过是同道的不同表达。
· "The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it."
宇宙是变幻的，我们的生活取决于我们心态。
· “You have the power to strip away many unnecessary troubles located wholly in your judgment of yourself and others, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole of cosmos”.
你有权任何时候超越你对自我和对它人的评价带来的不必要的麻烦，以宇宙人生的态度处世。
· “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you.”
忘了被伤害的感觉，伤害即逝。最好的复仇是不变成那个损害你的人。
· “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
开心来自于你的心态，平淡朴素就够了。
· "You have power over your mind--not outside events, or other people’s opinions of you. Realize this, and you will find strength."
你有权不让心外事物和别人的褒贬控制你的心境，认识这一点你就能找到力量。
· "Your life is what your thoughts make it. Watch your words and your actions, for they always come back to you.”
你的思想打造你的人生。观察你自己的言行，它们早晚会反酬回你。
· “You are wasting time that god has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.”
如果你天天想像别人明天会如何看待你，你是浪费今天的时间。