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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XXXVIII. Even as if any of the gods should tell thee,

Thou shalt certainly die to-morrow, or next day, thou wouldst not,

except thou wert extremely base and pusillanimous, take it for a

great benefit, rather to die the next day after, than to-morrow;

(for alas, what is the difference!) so, for the same reason,

think it no great matter to die rather many years after,

than the very next day.