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• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• 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
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• 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...
• Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 36...
• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....