Step forth.........................

7.   Never value the advantages from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled or curtained.  One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd.   Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuings and avoidings.  He does not care whether his soul in its mortal frame shall be his to possess for a longer or shorter term of years;  this very moment, if it be the hour of his departure, he will step forth as readily as he performs any other act that can be done in self-respecting and orderly fashion.  No other care has he in life but to keep his mind from straying into paths incompatible with those of an intelligent and social being.

-Marcus Aurelius,  Meditations,  Book III