Bear toil and pain without courting pity or admiration

 The George Long translation of 1862:

Labour not as one who is wretched, nor yet as one who would be pitied or admired, but direct thy will to one thing only, to put thyself in motion and to check thyself, as the social reason requires. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations. Book 9.

Chrystal's 2017 rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742:

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration. Wish for one thing only; always to act or to refrain as social wisdom requires. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations. Book 9.

Image: Detail of Mosaic depicting Roman agricultural labor, 1st - 2nd century CE, in the Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.  This mosaic was discovered in April 1925 during the excavations of Glénat in the house of the rural works.