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• At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.
  -- _Meditations_ by Marcus Aureliu...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate
  let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody....
• Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 27...
• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 3...
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 16...
• Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for ma
  but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee....
• Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 9...