Beyond Good and Evil — Page 9

相反，在哲学家身上，完全没有任何非个人的东西；尤其是，他的道德观提供了一个明确而决定性的证明，说明他是谁——也就是说，他本性中最深层的冲动彼此之间是以何种顺序排列的。

In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,--that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

哲学家们能有多恶毒！我没见过比伊壁鸠鲁对柏拉图及其门徒所开的玩笑更刻薄的了；他称他们为"狄奥尼西奥科拉刻斯"。

How malicious philosophers can be! I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took the liberty of making on Plato and the Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes.

就其本义而言，这个词表面上的意思是"狄奥尼西奥斯的奉承者"——因此，是僭主的帮凶和马屁精；

In its original sense, and on the face of it, the word signifies "Flatterers of Dionysius"--consequently, tyrants' accessories and lick-spittles;

然而除此之外，它也等于在说："他们都是演员，他们身上没有任何真实的东西"（因为"狄奥尼西奥科拉克斯"是演员的一个通俗称呼）。

besides this, however, it is as much as to say, "They are all ACTORS, there is nothing genuine about them" (for Dionysiokolax was a popular name for an actor).

而后者确实是伊壁鸠鲁强加于柏拉图的恶意指责：他对柏拉图及其门徒所擅长的那种宏大气派、舞台式的风格感到恼怒——而伊壁鸠鲁并不擅长这种风格！

And the latter is really the malignant reproach that Epicurus cast upon Plato: he was annoyed by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene style of which Plato and his scholars were masters--of which Epicurus was not a master!

他，这位躲藏在雅典小花园里的萨摩斯老塾师，写了三百部著作，也许是出于对柏拉图的愤怒和野心勃勃的嫉妒——谁知道呢！

He, the old school-teacher of Samos, who sat concealed in his little garden at Athens, and wrote three hundred books, perhaps out of rage and ambitious envy of Plato, who knows!

希腊花了一百年才弄清楚花园之神伊壁鸠鲁究竟是谁。她弄清楚了吗？

Greece took a hundred years to find out who the garden-god Epicurus really was. Did she ever find out?

在每一种哲学中，都有一个时刻，哲学家的"信念"登上舞台；或者，借用一句古老神秘语言的话来说：

There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery:

驾到了，那头驴，美丽而无比强壮。

Adventavit asinus, Pulcher et fortissimus.