《沉思录·卷一·家学渊源（谢师录）》第14条
From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; 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 equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which 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 disposition to do good, and to give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that I am loved by my friends; and in him I observed no concealment of his opinions with respect to those whom he condemned, and that his friends had no need to conjecture what he wished or did not wish, but it was quite plain.
注释摘要
这段文字记在塞维鲁名下，脉络却比前面几条更集中：它围绕一个核心的伦理与政治理想展开，而这个理想在斯多葛的思想里并不是附属品，而是内在推理的结果。奥勒留先说兄长教他爱亲人、爱真理、爱正义，这不是三个并列的美德条目，而是一种递进。在斯多葛的体系里，oikeiosis（亲缘归属）始于对自身、对骨肉的自然关怀，然后经过理性扩展为对一切理性存在者的关切，而真理与正义…