Some impressiong phrases by an Emperor of Roman Empire. 🐱
The sentences below are the ones impressing me:
He was far from being inhuman, or implacable, or violent; never doing anything with such keenness that one could say he was sweating about it, in all things he reasoned distinctly, as one at leisure, calmly, regularly, resolutely, and consistently. A man might fairly apply that to him which is recorded of Socrates: that he could both abstain from and enjoy these things, in want where of many show themselves weak. To be strong in abstinence and temperate in enjoyment, to be sober in both.
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