Book I.1
From his grandfather Verus: character and self-control.
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus opens by cataloguing virtues he learned from relatives, tutors, and the emperor Antoninus Pius, a method of moral self-formation through gratitude and emulation.
Book I.7
From Rusticus: introduction to Epictetus and the discourses on philosophy.
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Extended portrait of his adoptive father Antoninus Pius as the model of the philosopher-ruler.
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Thanks to the gods for providential circumstances of his life.
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