From
my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love
justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato,
Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which
there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to
equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly
government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed; I
learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my
regard for philosophy; and a disposition to do good, and to give to
others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that I am
loved by my friends; and in him I observed no concealment of his
opinions with respect to those whom he condemned, and that his
friends had no need to conjecture what he wished or did not wish, but
it was quite plain.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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