"At every hour give your full concentration, as a Roman and a man, to carrying out the
task in hand with a scrupulous and unaffected dignity and affectionate concern for
others and freedom and justice, and give yourself space from other concerns. You will
give yourself this if you carry out each act as if it were the last of your life, freed from
all randomness and passionate deviation from the rule of reason and from pretense
and self-love and dissatisfaction with what has been allotted to you. You see how few
things you need to master to be able to live a smoothly flowing life: the gods will ask
no more from someone who maintains these principles."
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.5
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