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• Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 10...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
  All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 32...