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• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• Nothing is evil which is according to nature. -- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 CE) "Meditations" [perhaps quoting Virgil (70-19 BCE) "If we follow nature we shall never go wrong.
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• 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....
• 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...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for ma
  but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee....
• 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....
• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
  Marcus Aurelius, Meditatio...