A passage from Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.7
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From my brother Severus, love to my kin, and to love truth and justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus, and received the idea of a polity administered with equity.
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