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Meditations · Book VI · 49
Book VI · 49

Thou art not dissatisfied. I suppose, because thou weighest only so many litrae and not three hundred. Be not dissatisfied then that thou must live only so many years and not more; for as thou art satisfied with the amount of substance which has been assigned to thee, so be content with the time.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VI.49. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.