Meditations, 4.47

Marcus Aurelius  translated by George Long

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47If any god told thee that thou shalt die tomorrow or certainly on the day after to-morrow, thou wouldst not care much whether it was on the third day or on the morrow, unless thou wast in the highest degree mean-spirited,—for how small is the difference?—so think it no great thing to die after as many years as thou canst name rather than to-morrow.

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