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• 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...
• Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for ma
  but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee....
• Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 7...
• Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 9...
• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be prese
  I am rising to a man's work." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 1...
• 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...
• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 21...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...