"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."

Mortality, Death, Time, Morality, Goodness

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"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."

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Explore more quotes by Marcus Aurelius

"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."

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