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• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all?
  Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty....
• This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 2...
• Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 2...
• The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 1...
• 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...
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 51...
• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....