Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me.

当时我想对他说什么来反对他，为那些哲学家辩护，我已经写下来了。

For emulation can never enter that godlike consort, nor such fretfulness as wants resolution to conceal its own resentments.

因为竞争永远不会进入那个神圣的伴侣中，也不会有那种焦虑，它缺乏决心去隐藏自己的怨恨。