This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the Nature of the Universal; and in a little time you will be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrian and Augustus.
In the next place, having fixed your eyes steadily on your business, look at it, and at the same time remembering that it is your duty to be a good man, and what man's nature demands, do that without turning aside; and speak as it seems to you most just, only let it be with a good disposition and with modesty and without hypocrisy.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.5
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