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• Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time
  as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen....
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 38...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• 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...
• 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...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 32...