According to Marcus Aurelius in Meditations, what lessons did Marcus learn from

Question: According to Marcus Aurelius in Meditations, what lessons did Marcus learn from his brother, Severus!?

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"From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed; I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy; and a disposition to do good, and to give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that I am loved by my friends; and in him I observed no concealment of his opinions with respect to those whom he condemned, and that his friends had no need to conjecture what he wished or did not wish, but it was quite plain"

this is a translation of the original text!. I took it from http://classics!.mit!.edu/Antoninus/medita!.!.!. , but there are others!. However consider that M!. Aurelius hadn't brothers, so the term "brother" is an affective one and sometimes is not translated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com