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• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one.
  Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason....
• One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 9...
• 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...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• 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...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• 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...