Related:

• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 5...
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• 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...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...