...I learned to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice ;" * * * "and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equ al rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most...

...brother, I learned to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; . . . 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; I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and a...

...those of later heroes of the Stoical protestation against 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 governed1." Here the- demand 1 That the Romans themselves were conscious of this, may be seen for example...

...patronised." For the effect of patronage on literature, cf. Jnv. vn. inc. 8 Tac. Agric. 3, cf. Med. i. 14 : "A kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed." republicanism and imperial flattery, suggests that it was not so oppressive as it has been represented....

...emperor Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic philosopher. In his Meditations, written in about 170 AD, he favoured a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity with equal rights and freedom of speech, and a kingly government that respects most of all the freedom...

...upon man as a citizen of the city of Reason, for he said: "There is the same law for all, which is administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech" — And then he proceeded to wage a relentless war against Christianity. This was his spiritual side. In his...