From Rusticus I derived the notion that my character needed training and care, and that I must not allow myself to be led astray into a sophist’s enthusiasm for concocting speculative treatises, edifying homilies, or imaginary sketches of the ascetic or the altruist.
从鲁斯提库斯那里懂得：品性需要修习与持守；绝不能误入歧途，像那些诡辩家一般，热衷于炮制空泛的思辨论著、教化布道辞，或是凭空描摹苦行者、利他者的虚构形象。
He also told me to avoid rhetoric, poetry, and verbal conceits, affectations of dress at home, and other such lapse of taste, and to imitate the easy epistolary style of his own letter written at Sinuessa to my mother.
他还告诫我：要远离华丽辞藻、诗歌、文字巧饰；居家时不刻意在衣着上装模作样，摒弃诸如此类格调失当的习气；学习他在锡努埃萨写给我母亲那封书信里从容平易的书信笔调。
If anyone, after falling out with me in a moment of temper, shows signs of wanting to make peace again, I was to be ready at once to meet them half-way.
倘若有人一时动怒与我失和，之后流露出和解之意，我应当立刻主动示好、各退一步，促成修好。
Also I was to be accurate in my reading, and not content with a mere general idea of the meaning; and not to let myself be too quickly convinced by a glib tongue.
读书务求精准，不能只满足于粗知大意；也不要被伶牙俐齿轻易说服。
Through him, too, I came to know Epictetus’ dissertations, of which he gave me a copy from his library.
也是经由他，我读到了爱比克泰德的《论说集》—— 他从自己的藏书里拿出一册赠予我。
来源：马克·奥勒留《沉思录》
