Possibly my favorite quote from Meditations (the Martin Hammond translation): "... you would never say of him that he 'broke out a sweat': but everything was a

Possibly my favorite quote from Meditations (the Martin Hammond translation): "... you would never say of him that he 'broke out a sweat': but everything was allotted its own time and thought, as by a man of leisure—his way was unhurried, organized, vigorous, consistent in all". Here, Aurelius is referring to his adoptive father, Antoninus Pius, who was known as one of the good Roman emperors and undoubtedly a very busy man.