BOOK I

. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to II. Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of III. Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily IV. To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit V. From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not VI. Of Sextus, mildness and the pattern of a family governed with VII. From Alexander the Grammarian, to be un-reprovable myself, and not VIII. Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a IX. Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to X. Of Catulus, not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, XI. From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my XII. From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power XIII. In my father, I observed his meekness; his constancy without XIV. From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, XV. In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning XVI. Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we XVII. Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will THE SECOND