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• Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time
  as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen....
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• It's possible that the whole purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.
• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• 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...
• Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for ma
  but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee....
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 11...
• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land
  but the fame that comes after is oblivion....