Not to be sidetracked by my interest in rhetoric. Rusticus The recognition that I needed to train and discipline my character. To choose the Greek lifestyle-the camp-bed and the cloak.
To practice philosophy, and to study with Baccheius, and then with Tandasis and Marcianus. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. To do my own work, mind my own business, and have no time for slanderers. To put up with discomfort and not make demands. My first teacher Not to support this side or that in chariot-racing, this fighter or that in the games. My great-grandfather To avoid the public schools, to hire good private teachers, and to accept the resulting costs as money well-spent. And the simple way she lived-not in the least like the rich. My mother Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. My father (from my own memories and his reputation) Integrity and manliness. My grandfather Verus Character and self-control. Order This Book! Secure Order Guarantee Item No: 9780679642602Įxcerpt from Meditations of Marcus Aurelius BOOK ONE: DEBTS & LESSONS 1. ISBN: 9780679642602 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. You Save: $7.02 (32%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Meditations (of Marcus Aurelius) Marcus Aurelius A New Translation and Introduction by Gregory Hays Meditations (of Marcus Aurelius) Translation by Gregory Hays - Leadershop ĭescription and Reviews Read An Excerpt About the Author Table of Contents Find Similar Items See Also: Business
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