Truth & Justice

To love my family
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Truth and justice
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Love my family
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Truth and justice
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Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
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My brother Severus
It was through him I encountered Thrasea
Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus
And conceived of a society of equal laws
Governed by equality of status and of speech
And of rulers who respect the liberty
Of their subjects above all else
And from him as well to be steady and consistent
In valuing philosophy
And to help others and be eager to share
Not to be a pessimist, never to doubt your friends’ affection for you
And when people incurred his disapproval
They always knew it
They always knew it
And that his friends never had to speculate about his attitude to anything
It was always clear

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To love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
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Truth and justice
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To help others and eager to share
To help others and eager to share
To help others and eager to share
To help others and eager to share

Maximus
Self-control and resistance to distractions
Optimism in adversity
Especially illness
A personality in balance
Dignity and grace together
Doing your job without whining

Other people’s certainty that what he said was what he thought
And what he did was done without malice
Never taken aback or apprehensive
Neither rash nor hesitant
Or bewildered
Or at a loss
Not obsequious but not aggressive or paranoid either
Generosity, charity, honesty
The sense he gave of staying on the path
Not being kept on it
That no one could have ever felt patronized by him
Or in a position to patronize him
A sense of humor

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To love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family
Truth and justice
Love my family

To help others and eager
To share
To help others and eager
To share
To help others and eager
To share
To help others and eager
To share