Marcus Aurelius: “Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty, and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice.”

But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.