Let them be seen in thee, which depend wholly from thee; sincerity, gravity, laboriousness, contempt of pleasures; be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.
让那些完全取决于你的品质显露出来:真诚、庄重、勤勉,不沉溺享乐;不抱怨,知足,友善,自由;远离一切多余之物和空谈,心胸宽广。
— Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · Book V, V (Meric Casaubon translation, 1634) —