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Meditations · Book VIII · 2
Book VIII · 2

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. What more do I seek, if what I am now doing is the work of an intelligent living being, and a social being, and one who is under the same law with God?

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VIII.2. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.