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.Ħ. 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. 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.ĥ. 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. In the famous memory of my father I had a pattern of modesty and manliness. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger.
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