“不要听从劝告我们的人,是人就想人的事,是凡人就想凡人的事。必须尽可能让自己永垂不朽,并且竭力活出我们生命中的最好状态,尽管这种状态为数不多,但在力量、价值上它可以超越一切。这可能就是每个人的自身,因为这是他最具代表、最好的一部分。如果一个人要选择的不是他自己的生活而是其他的生活,那就显得奇怪了。”(《尼各马可伦理学》,第十章)
must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more in power and in worth does it surpass everything. This would seem, too, to be each man himself, since it is the authoritative and better part of him. It would be strange, then, if he were to choose not the life of his self but that of something else.
这是我们的自由大宪章!