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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical

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Author or tradition
Marcus Aurelius
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 121 to 180; Wikidata Q1430, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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