VIII. From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness; and to see clearly in a living example that the same man can be both most resolute and yielding, and not peevish in giving his instruction; and to have had before my eyes a man who clearly considered his experience and his skill in expounding philosophical principles as the smallest of his merits; and from him I learned how to receive from friends what are esteemed favors, without being either humbled by them or letting them pass unnoticed.
A Stoic brought from the east at considerable expense to teach the heir. Called “of Chalcedon”; others say Chalcis, and Cassius Dio says Nicomedia.
Where they were from
Where they were fromCalled “of Chalcedon” — though some say Chalcis, and Cassius Dio says Nicomedia.
When, in his life
Where it comes from
The Stoic claim is that the wise man is the same in every circumstance. Marcus buried most of his children; when he writes "the loss of a child" he is naming something he needed this doctrine for.
Where he says it again
Book IV returns to it as the headland: “Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break.”