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The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus
The Thoughts of the Emperor M Aurelius Antoninus Author:Marcus Aurelius Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: M. ANTONINUS. I. IJKOM my grandfather Verus1 [I learned] good morals and the government of my temper. 2. From the reputation and remembrance of my father,... more » modesty and a manly character. 3. From my mother,8 piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich. 4. From my great-grandfather,4 not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally. 5. From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partizan cither of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to i Annius Verus was bis grandfather's name. There is no verb in this section connected with the word " from," nor in the following sections of this book; and it is not quite certain what verb should he supplied. What I have added may express the meaning here, though there are sections which it will not fit. If he does not mean to say that he learned all these good tilings from the several persons whom he mentions, he means that he observed certain good qualities in them, or received certain benefits from them, and it is implied that ho was the butter for it, or at least might have been; for it would be a mistake to understand Marcus as saying that he possessed all the virtues which he observed in lua kinsmen and teachers. a His father's name was Annius Verus. Ilis mother was Domitia Calvilla, named also Lucilla. Perhaps his mother's grandfather, Gitilius Severus. meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to lis...« less