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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....
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...
• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatme
  o shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two....
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future
  for how can one take from him that which is not his?...
• A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 5...
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...