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• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 22...
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatme
  o shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two....
• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 2...
• 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...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• 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...
• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future
  for how can one take from him that which is not his?...