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• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 34...
• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one.
  Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason....
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• 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...
• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• 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...
• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden withi
  here lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man....
• Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake
  hat to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it....
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live
  death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good....