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• 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...
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 61...
• 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...
• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself
  praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised....
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
  Marcus Aurelius, Meditatio...
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aureliu
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...