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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 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....
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...
• 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...
• Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 27...
• 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...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...