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Meditations · Book IV · 47
Book IV · 47

If any god told thee that thou shalt die to-morrow, 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.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.47. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.