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• 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...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 33...
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 45...
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he doe
  just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing....