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• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
  All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• 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...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 3...
• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 45...