Meditations. Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

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       HIS FIRST BOOK

       I. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to

       II. Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of

       III. Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily

       IV. To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit

       V. From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not

       VI. Of Sextus, mildness and the pattern of a family governed with

       VII. From Alexander the Grammarian, to be un-reprovable myself, and not

       VIII. Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a

       IX. Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to

       X. Of Catulus, not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust,

       XI. From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my

       XII. From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power

       XIII. In my father, I observed his meekness; his constancy without

       XIV. From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents,

       XV. In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning

       XVI. Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we

       XVII. Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will

       THE SECOND BOOK

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