"From
Maximus I learned self-government, and not to be
led aside
by anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness;
and a just admixture in the moral character of sweetness and dignity,
and to do what was set before me without complaining. I observed that
everybody believed that he thought as he spoke, and that in all that he did he
never had any bad intention..."
by anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness;
and a just admixture in the moral character of sweetness and dignity,
and to do what was set before me without complaining. I observed that
everybody believed that he thought as he spoke, and that in all that he did he
never had any bad intention..."
Meditations, Book I: 15
Also try Commodus, Lucius Verus, Didius Julianus
