Be deaf to those who love you

Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions. And, if you would be happy, entreat the gods that none of their fond desires for you may be brought to pass. What they wish to have heaped upon you are not really good things; there is only one good, the cause and the support of a happy life — trust in oneself. Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, XXXI. ON SIREN SONGS