From the Mother of Caesar

What Marcus Aurelius learned from his mother, Domitia Lucilla

From my mother [I learned], piety and kindness, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich. — Marcus Aurelius

Although it goes unmentioned in Marcus’s brief character sketch of his mother, Lucilla exhibited another notable virtue: natural aff…