It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the "insane". Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. We are the other of the other."
Marcus Aurelius