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• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 11...
• Poverty is the mother of crime. -- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 CE)
• That to be patient is a branch of justice; and that we often sin without intending it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoniu...
• Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity, as of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished and live.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)...
• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. -- Marcus Aureliu
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, xi, 10...