When thou hast assumed these names, good, modest, true, rational, a man of equanimity, and magnanimous, take care that thou dost not change these names; and if thou shouldst lose them, quickly return to them.
In his personal reflections, this passage urges the reader to embody and consistently uphold the virtues they aspire to represent.
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How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.
He was accustomed to do acts of beneficence, and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood; and he presented the appearance of a man who could not be diverted from right, rather than of a man who had been improved.
I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man.
It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).
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