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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aureliu
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• I share no man's opinions; I have my own. -- Ivan Turgenev
• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all?
  Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty....
• Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time
  as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen....
• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 18...
• EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
  Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name....
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...
• Nothing is less likely to appeal to young women than the opinions of old men on the pill.