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• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 7...
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself
  praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised....
• The ways of the gods are full of providence.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 3...
• 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...
• 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...