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“Life, like ripe corn, must to the sickle yield, And one must be, another cease to be”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Nothing can happen to any man which is not a human accident, nor to an ox which is not according to the nature of an ox, nor to a vine which is not according to the nature of a vine, nor to a stone which is not proper to a stone. If then there happens to each thing both what is usual and natural, why shouldst thou complain? For the common nature brings nothing which may not be borne by thee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers