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The Twelve Books of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Emperor (Classic Reprint)
The Twelve Books of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor - Classic Reprint Author:Marcus Aurelius M AURELIUS ANTONINUS I FROM my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. 2 From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. 3 From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts ; and further, simplicity in my way of living, fa... more »r removed from the habits of the rich. 4 From my great-grandfather, 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 either 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, B
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