Meditations, Book I, Section 1

Former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao famously said that he read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius over 100 times.

I'm not sure I want to read it that many times, but since the key point is application, not abstract knowledge, reading it several or many times would seem to help get it into one's reflexive memory, such that when particular thoughts are needed, they flow freely into one's mind from one's memory. 

Here is Book I, Section 1:

Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.