That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

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• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse:
  it has no power to harm, without or within. -- Marcus...
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
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• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land;
  but the fame that comes after is oblivion. -- Marcus...
• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
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• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
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• This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh,
  a little breath, and the part which governs. -- Marcus...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. --
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