Hutcheson, F. (2012). The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
So when figs are at the ripest, they begin to crack. Thus in full ripe olives, their approach to putrefaction gives the proper beauty to the fruit....his chaste eyes behold the maturity and grace of old age in man or woman, and the inviting charms of youth. p.40-41
再如无花果，当它们熟时也会裂开口；成熟的橄榄恰在它们接近腐烂时给果实增加了一种特殊的美。...他能在一个老年人那里看到某种成熟和合宜，能以纯净的眼光打量年青人的魅力和可爱。（来自网络）
Spend not the remainder of your life in conjectures about others, except where it is subservient to some public interest: conjecturing what such a one is doing, and with what view, what he is saying, what he is thinking,...this attention to the affairs of others, makes one wander from his own business,... p.41
当你不把你的思想指向公共福利的某个目标时，不要把你剩下的生命浪费在思考别人上。因为，当你有这思想时，你就丧失了做别的事情的机会。这个人在做什么，为什么做，他说了什么，想了什么，...注意所有这些事情将使我们忽略了观察我们自己的支配力量。（来自网络）
Quit, therefore, other things, and retain these few. p.44
那么把所有的东西丢开，只执着于这很少数的事情吧；（来自网络）
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