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• If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
  -- Socrate...
• Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, si
  only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death....
• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life
  Know thyself", and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend....
• The most advantageous, pre-eminent thing thou canst do is not to exhibit nor display thyself within the limits of our galaxy
  but rather depart instantaneously whence thou even now standest and flee to yet another rotten planet in the universe, if thou canst have the good fortune to find one....
• About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day
  for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die....
• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• One persons's way may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. -- Jane Auste