Take care that you are not made into a Caesar, that you are not dyed with this dye; for such things happen.
Keep yourself then simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshipper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts.
Strive to continue to be such as philosophy wished to make you. Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
There is only one fruit of this terrene life—a pious disposition and social acts.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.30
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