智慧書（中英雙語） · 50．不失自尊

50．不失自尊 不失自尊，也不要太過隨便。要讓自身的正義感成為令你正直的真正標準，使你對自己的審查比外界的一切制裁更為嚴格。任何不體面之事都別做，並非害怕外界的權威，而是因為自尊。注重這一點，就不需要塞涅卡所謂的「假想監督者」(1)了。 50．Never lose self-respect Never lose self-respect, or be too familiar with oneself. Let your own right feeling be the true standard of your rectitude, and owe more to the strictness of your own self-judgment than to all external sanctions. Leave off anything unseemly more from regard for your own self-respect than from fear of external authority. Pay regard to that and there is no need of Seneca's imaginary tutor. (1) 指良心，出自塞涅卡《道德書簡》。