{"text": "the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings"}
{"text": "He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury"}
{"text": "from all these things Marcus held severely aloof"}
{"text": "to keep myself not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and to live with a simplicity which is far from customary among the rich"}
{"text": "not to busy myself about vain things; not to credit the great professions of such as pretend to work wonders, or of sorcerers about their charms, and their expelling of Demons and the like"}
{"text": "first apprehensions that my nature needed reform and cure; and that I did not fall into the ambition of the common Sophists"}