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• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• 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...
• Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 32...
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 38...
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...