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• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 33...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well.
  Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me....
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27