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• 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....
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself.
  He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is....
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...
• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round
  and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart....
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 38...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....