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From my grandfather Verus: decency and a mild temper.

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:10 “From Fronto: to understand the effect of suspicion, caprice, and hypocrisy in the exercise of absolute rule; and that for the most part these people we call ‘Patricians’ are somewhat short of human affection.”

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:5 “From my tutor: not to become a Green or Blue supporter at the races, or side with the Lights or Heavies in the amphitheatre; to tolerate pain and feel few needs; to work with my own hands and mind my own business; to be deaf to malicious gossip.”

Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

1:3 ”From my mother: piety, generosity, the avoidance of wrong-doing and even the thought of it; also simplicity of living, well clear of the habits of the rich."

Title
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:2 "From what they say and I remember of my natural father: integrity and manliness."

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:8 “From Apollonius: moral freedom, the certainty to ignore the dice of fortune, and have no other perspective, even for a moment, than that of reason alone; to be always the same man, unchanged in sudden pain, in the loss of a child, in lingering sickness; to see clearly in his living example that a man can combine intensity and relaxation; not to be impatient in explanation; the observance of a man who clearly regarded as the least of his gifts his experience and skill in communicating his philosophical insights; the lesson of how to take apparent favours from one’s friends, neither compromised by them nor insensitive in their rejection.”

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:1 “From Sextus: a kindly disposition, and the pattern 9of a household governed by the paterfamilias; the concept of life lived according to nature; an unaffected dignity; intuitive concern for his friends; tolerance both of ordinary people and of the 2emptily opinionated; an agreeable manner with all, so that the pleasure of his conversation was greater than any flattery, and his very presence brought him the highest respect from all the company; certainty of grasp and method in the discovery and 3organization of the essential principles of life; never to give the impression of anger or any other passion, but to combine complete freedom from passion with the greatest human affection; to praise without fanfare, and to wear great learning lightly.”

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:1 “From Rusticus: to grasp the idea of wanting correction and treatment for my character; not to be diverted into a taste for rhetoric, so not writing up my own speculations, delivering my own little moral sermons, or presenting a glorified picture of the ascetic or the philanthropist; to keep clear of speechifying, versifying, and pretentious language; not to walk around at home in ceremonial dress, or do anything else like that; to write letters in an unaffected style, like his own letter written to my mother from Sinuessa; to be readily recalled to conciliation with those who have taken or given offence, just as soon as they themselves are willing to turn back; to read carefully, not satisfied with my own superficial thoughts or quick to accept the facile views of others; to have encountered the Discourses of Epictetus, to which he introduced me with his own copy.”

Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:6 “From Diognetus: to avoid empty enthusiasms; to disbelieve all that is talked by miracle-mongers and quacks about incantations, exorcism of demons, and the like; not to hold quail-fights or be excited by such sports; to tolerate plain speaking; to have an affinity for philosophy, and to attend the lectures first of Baccheius, then of Tandasis and Marcianus; to write essays from a young age; to love the camp-bed, the hide blanket, and all else involved in the Greek training.”

Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

1:4 “From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realise that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.”