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The Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius
Translated by George Long
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BOOK ONE
From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government
of my temper .
From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly
character.
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, far removed from the habits of the rich.
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.
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,
and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready
to listen to slander .
From Diognetus, not to busy myself about trifling things, and not
to give credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers about
incantations and the driving away of daemons and such things; and
not to breed quails for fighting, nor to give myself up passionately
to such things; and to endure freedom of speech; and to have become
intimate with philosophy; and to have been a hearer , first of Bacchius,
then of Tandasis and Marcianus; and to have written dialogues in my
youth; and to have desired a plank bed and skin, and whatever else
of the kind belongs to the Grecian discipline.
From Rusticus I received the impression that my character required
improvement and discipline; and from him I learned not to be led astray
to sophistic emulat