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• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 21...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• 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....
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...
• 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...
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 38...