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• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 15...
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotte
  and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be prese
  I am rising to a man's work." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 1...