"Do not live as if you were to live forever. Death hangs over you."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Marcus Aurelius is one of the Stoic philosophers.
More quotes from Marcus Aurelius
- "Things do not touch the soul, but remain outside of it, and disturbance comes only from internal opinion."
- "If you are disturbed by something external, it is not that which is troubling you, but your own judgment about it."
- "Think of what you have instead of thinking about what you lack."
- "Wisdom is never a certainty, it is a constant search."
- "Nothing has so much power to expand the mind as the ability to systematically and truly investigate all that is observable in life."