[Spirit Dancer]

Don't seek to gain anything for yourself that forces you to break your
word or lose self-respect; to hate, suspect, or curse another; or to be
insincere or to desire something that needs to remain secret.
Look to the people whose main desire is to nurture their minds and their
inner spirits. They do not fuss, complain, or crave either solitude or
a crowd. And, most important of all, they will live without either striving
or avoiding, and will not care whether their lives are long or short.
If death comes for them at this very instant, they will go as easily as if
they were doing any other act needing self-respect and calm, being careful
of only this through their lives: that their thoughts do not stray into paths
incompatible with an intelligent and social being.

Marcus Aurelius