Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Meditations, Book 4, Section 17
c. 161-180 AD
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