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+From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government
+of my temper. 
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+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 emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor
+to delivering little hortatory orations, nor to showing myself off
+as a man who practises much discipline, or does benevolent acts in
+order to make a display; and to abstain from rhetoric, and poetry,
+and fine writing; and not to walk about in the house in my outdoor
+dress, nor to do other things of the kind; and to write my letters
+with simplicity, like the letter which Rusticus wrote from Sinuessa
+to my mother; and with respect to those who have offended me by words,
+or done me wrong, to be easily disposed to be pacified and reconciled,
+as soon as they have shown a readiness to be reconciled; and to read
+carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding
+of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch;
+and I am indebted to him for being acquainted with the discourses
+of Epictetus, which he communicated to me out of his own collection.
+
+From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness
+of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except
+to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion
+of the loss of a child, and in long illness; and to see clearly in
+a living example that the same man can be both most resolute and yielding,
+and not peevish in giving his instruction; and to have had before
+my eyes a man who clearly considered his experience and his skill
+in expounding philosophical principles as the smallest of his merits;
+and from him I learned how to receive from friends what are esteemed
+favours, without being either humbled by them or letting them pass
+unnoticed. 
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