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• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 33...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 16...
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes.
  So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it....