Hutcheson, F. (2012). The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.

1. "...a pattern of a benign temper, and of a family, governed with true paternal affection and a stedfast purpose of living according to nature;..." p.27

2. "...to avoid censuring others, or flouting at them for a barbarism, solecism, or any false pronounciation; but dextrously to pronounce the words as they ought, in my answering, approving, or arguing the matter, without taking direct notice of the mistake;..." p.27

3. "...in all things to have power over myself,and in nothing to be hurried away by any passion: to be chearful and couragious in all sudden accidents, as in sicknesses to have an easy command of my own temper; to maintain a kind, sweet, and yet grave deportment; to execute my designs vigorously without freting."

4. "Thus he left his friends at liberty, to sup with him or not, to go abroad with him or not, as they inclined; and they still found him the same, after their affairs had hindered them to attend him." p.29