...through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus ; 8 and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for...administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom 1 Cinna Catulus, a Stoic philosopher. 2 The word brother may not be genuine. Antoninus had no brother....

...Yet his own idea of government must have been as utopian as any. " I have received," he says, " the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for...a kingly government which respects most of all the rights of the governed" (i. 14). It is, however, not as Emperor of .Rome, but as author of the Meditations,...

...the two Catos, and of Dion and Brutus. Antoninus probably alludes to Cato of Utica, who was a Stoic. of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which...undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and a disposi tion to do good, and to give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that...

...through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus ; 13 and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for...all the freedom of the governed ; I learned from him alsot consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and a disposition to do...

...Brutus. Anton1nus probably alludes to Cato of Utica, who was a Stoic. of speech, and the idea of a kingiy government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ; I learned from him also t consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and a disposition to do good,...

...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...freedom of the governed ; I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and a disposition to do good,...

...grand cry. Of its best intent we have an inkling in the " idea" of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, — the idea " of a polity in which there is the same law...administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of a people, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed."...

...with Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, and Brutus, from whose lives and recorded words he learned ' the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity 1 Meditations, I. 1 — 5. administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and...

...through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus ; 8 and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for...administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom 1 Cinna Catulus, a Stoic philosopher. 2 The word brother may not be genuine. Antoninus had no brother....

...great to have been an emperor subject to the necessities of statecraft in that dark age — conceived of a polity in which there is " the same law for all,...of a kingly government which respects most of all freedom of the governed." "From the moment," says Judge Story, 1 "when principles of decisions came...