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Marcus Aurelius

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Englisch

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THE MEDITATIONS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS A NEW RENDERING BASED ON THE FOULIS TRANSLATION OF 1742 BY GEORGE W. CHRYSTAL WARNER EXHIBITIONER OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD EDINBURGH OTTO SCHULZE & COMPANY 20 SOUTH FREDERIC STREET LONDON: S. C. BROWN & COMPANY 47 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C. 1902 MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS BOOK I. 1. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger. 2. In the famous memory of my father I had a pattern of modesty and manliness. 3. Of my mother I learned to be pious and generous; to keep myself not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and to live with a simplicity which is far from customary among the rich. 4. I owe it to my great-grandfather that I did not attend public lectures and discussions, but had good and able teachers at home; and I owe him also the knowledge that for things of this nature a man should count no expense too great. 5. My tutor taught me not to favour either green or blue at the chariot races, nor, in the contests of gladiators, to be a supporter teachers at home; and I owe him also the knowledge that for things of this nature a man should count no expense too great. 5. My tutor taught me not to favour either green or blue at the chariot races, nor, in the contests of gladiators, to be a supporter either of light or heavy armed. He taught me also to endure labour; not to need many things; to serve myself without troubling others; not to intermeddle in the affairs of others, and not easily to listen to slanders against them. 6. Of Diognetus I had the lesso

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