“From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always..that it was possible for the same man to be both vehement and remiss: a man not subject to be vexed, and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his lectures and expositions.”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

I, 5
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book I

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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