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• 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...
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.
  ... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle....
• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he doe
  just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing....
• A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 5...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself.
  He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is....
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...