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• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 4...
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 11...
• 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...
• 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...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• The ways of the gods are full of providence.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 3...