Marcus Aurelius: “He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.”

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and…

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.

If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist?