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• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• 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...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• 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...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...