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• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• 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...
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 7...
• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 11...
• 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...
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...