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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.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 15...
• 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....
• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 45...
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• 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...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• 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....