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• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 18...
• 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...
• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 7...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• The ways of the gods are full of providence.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 3...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...