First and most important: “Take care that you are not made into a Caesar, that you are not dyed with this purple dye; for such things happen. Keep yourself rather simple, good, pure, serious from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshipper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts. … help people. Life is short.” (The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, VI, ¶ 30); below “MMA”.)