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• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land
  but the fame that comes after is oblivion....
• 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...
• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 2...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...