“To live your brief life rightly, isn't that enough?”
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 31
“The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VI, 47
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