Labor not as one who is wretched, nor yet as one who would be pitied or admired; but direct thy will to one thing only--to put thyself in motion and to check thyself, as the social reason requires.
Marcus Aurelius instructs on the proper motivation for action, urging one to work with purpose and social awareness rather than seeking pity or admiration.
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But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
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