Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_x: Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that eit...

Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.