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• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• 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....
• 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....
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live
  death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good....
• Death,--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 28...
• 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...
• 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....
• All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
  All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....