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• To stand up -- or be setup? -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, book 6.
• A candour affected is a dagger concealed. -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, book 9.
• A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
  -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, book 9....
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• 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...
• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 6...
• How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotte
  and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!...
• Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible
  life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible....