In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

-- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

总而言之，我们做或不做任何事情的真正原因，不是死亡，不是流放，不是痛苦，也不是任何这类事情，而是我们内心的想法和原则。

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Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

让我们工作吧，就好像成功只取决于我们自己，但我们要由衷地相信，我们什么也没有做，上帝什么都没有做。

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

就行动的目的而言，没有什么比狭隘的思想加上坚强的意志更有用的了。

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

任何道德戒律都有其不便之处。

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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

正义是所有道德责任的总和。

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