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• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 36...
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 11...
• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 50...
• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 1...
• All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well.
  Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me....
• 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...