"Never value as beneficial to yourself something which will force you one day to break your word,
abandon your sense of shame, hate, suspect, or curse someone else, pretend, or desire something
that needs the secrecy of walls or curtains. The one who has chosen to value above all his own
mind and guardian-spirit and the worship of his mind’s virtue does not make a drama of his life or
complain and will not need either isolation or crowds of people; most of all, he will live neither
pursuing nor avoiding things. He does not care in any way whether he will have his soul enclosed
by his body for a longer or shorter time; even if he needs to leave right away, he goes away as
readily as if he were performing any of the other actions that can be done in a decent and orderly
way, exercising care for this alone throughout his life, that his mind should never be in a state
which is alien to that of a rational and social being."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.7
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