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• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• 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....
• 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...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 2...
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...
• 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...