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Article: Ignoring the past. (books in shaping ones mind, life and history)

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IGNORING THE PAST

BOOKS HAVE HAD a share in the shaping of my mind along with the school of life and the lessons of history. One book has colored my thinking to a considerable degree, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor.

I love the splendid beginning of Book I, in which Marcus Aurelius cites the persons from whom he received his education in values:

From my grandfather Verus: the lessons of noble character and even temper. From my father's reputation and my memory of him: modesty and manliness. . . . From my tutor: not to become a partisan of the Green Jacket or the Blue in the races, nor of Thracian or Samnite ...

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