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I will look upon death or upon a comedy with the same expression of countenance:

I will submit to labors, however great they may be, supporting the strength of my body by that of my mind:

I will despise riches when I have them as much as when I have them not; if they be elsewhere I will not be more gloomy, if they sparkle around me I will not be more lively than I should otherwise be:

Whether Fortune comes or goes I will take no notice of her:

I will view all lands as though they belong to me, and my own as though they belonged to all mankind:

I will so live as to remember that I was born for others, and will thank Nature on this account: for in what fashion could she have done better for me? She has given me alone to all, and all to me alone.

Whatever I may possess, I will neither hoard it greedily nor squander it recklessly. I will think that I have no possessions so real as those which I have given away to deserving people:

I will not reckon benefits by their magnitude or number, or by anything except the value set upon them by the receiver: I never will consider a gift to be a large one if it be bestowed upon a worthy object.

I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience:

Whenever I do anything alone by myself I will believe that the eyes of the Roman people are upon me while I do it.

In eating and drinking my object shall be to quench the desires of Nature, not to fill and empty my belly.

I will be agreeable with my friends, gentle and mild to my foes:

I will grant pardon before I am asked for it, and will meet the wishes of honorable men half way:

I will bear in mind that the world is my native city, that its governors are the gods, and that they stand above and around me, criticizing whatever I do or say.

Whenever either Nature demands my breath again, or reason bids me dismiss it, I will quit this life, calling all to witness that I have loved a good conscience, and good pursuits; that no one's freedom, my own least of all, has been impaired through me.

- Seneca, Of a Happy Life, Book 20