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• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 50...
• 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...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 51...
• Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.
  ... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle....
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 11...
• Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake
  hat to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it....