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• 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....
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...
• 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...
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live
  death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good....
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• 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...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...