Remember Antoninus' constancy in every act which was conformable to reason, and his evenness in all things, and his piety, and the serenity of his countenance, and his sweetness, and his disregard of empty fame, and his efforts to understand things, and how he would never let anything pass without having first most carefully examined it and clearly understood it, and how he bore with those who blamed him unjustly without blaming them in return, how he did nothing in a hurry, and how he listened not to calumnies, and how exact an examiner of manners and actions he was and not given to reproach people. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Image: A close-up view of the faces of emperor Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina, being carried away to heaven on the base of the column of antoninus Pius in Rome courtesy of R. Rumora and Wikimedia Commons.
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