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• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 11...
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 51...
• Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 15...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...
• 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...
• 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...