Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_ix: Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to say, or t...

Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to say, or to write to any man in a letter, 'I am not at leisure'; nor in this manner still to put off those duties, which we owe to our friends and acquaintances (to every one in his kind) under pretence of urgent affairs.