...and 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...which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ; I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; a disposition...

...thus ordered, what should a wise man do or think, or not do or think " ? CXXI. From him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law...respects most of all the freedom of the governed. with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom and justice; and to give thyself...

...says that it is his aim to be the ruler of a state " in which there is the same law for all, which is administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and to carry on a government which respects, most of all, the freedom of the governed." He is a cosmopolitan...

...plerosque populos eodem die hostes, dein cives habuerit." Caesarean despotism, holds up before himself " the idea of a polity in which there is the same law...government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed."1 Here the demand for administrative unity might seem to be reconciled with the older ideal...

...and 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...government which respects most of all the freedom 1 A grammaticus, a native of Phrygia. 3 Cornelius Fronto, a rhetorician and teacher and friend of Antoninus....

...says that it is his aim to be the ruler of a State " in which there is the same law for all, which is administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and to carry on a government which respects, most of all, the freedom of the governed." He is a cosmopolitan...

...great men are inseparably connected by affinity of soul. " The idea of a polity," wrote the Emperor, "in which there is the same law for all, a polity...respects most of all the freedom of the governed." This ideal was very imperfectly realised in the Roman State. But is it perfectly realised now ? CHAPTER...

...also. How admirable in a hard- tasked ruler, and a ruler, too, with a passion for thinking 399 Jr J and reading, is such a memorandum as the following...governed.' And, for all men who ' drive at practice,' what practical rules may not one accumulate out of these Meditations : — ' The greatest part of what we...

...as the world a ruler, the herd a leader; but this chief is not above the laws. His ideal is that " of a polity in which there is the same law for all,...respects most of all the freedom of the governed." He abhors whatever is arbitrary or unjust, and finds nothing so odious as the character of a tyrant,...

...Thrasea, Helvidius, ; Cato, Dion, and Bentus, from whose lives and recorded words he learned " the idea of polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity...with regard to equal • rights and equal freedom ofspeech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects mostoFall the freedom of the governed."...