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• Think of this doctrine -- That reasoning beings were created for one another's sake
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoniu...
• That to be patient is a branch of justice; and that we often sin without intending it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoniu...
• 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...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 22...
• 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...
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...