"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.“
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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