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• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land
  but the fame that comes after is oblivion....
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 34...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 45...
• Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 32...
• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 50...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27