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• The ways of the gods are full of providence.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 3...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• 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...
• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 21...
• 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...
• 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...
• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 6...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...