An extract from Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment,

regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among

men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods

will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or

if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live

in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But in truth

they do exist, and they do care for human things, and they have put

all the means in man's power to enable him not to fall into real evils.

And as to the rest, if there was anything evil, they would have provided

for this also, that it should be altogether in a man's power not to

fall into it. Now that which does not make a man worse, how can it

make a man's life worse? But neither through ignorance, nor having

the knowledge, but not the power to guard against or correct these

things, is it possible that the nature of the universe has overlooked

them; nor is it possible that it has made so great a mistake, either

through want of power or want of skill, that good and evil should

happen indiscriminately to the good and the bad. But death certainly,

and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things

equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither

better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.

 

If I quoted everything I liked about that book, I wouold have to post a download link for the whole book. This guy, he's awesome.
And he SO did knew what was up.

Read Him.
Now.