“Be not perturbed, for all things are according to the
nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt be nobody and nowhere,
like Hadrian and Augustus. In the next place having fixed thy eyes steadily on
thy business look at it, and at the same time remembering that it is thy duty
to be a good man, and what man's nature demands, do that without turning aside;
and speak as it seems to thee most just, only let it be with a good disposition
and with modesty and without hypocrisy.” –Marcus Aurelius, The
Meditations
