Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years.”
- Date
- c. 170
- English wording
- George Long — Translator · from Ancient Greek
Meaning of “Do not act as if thou wert going…”
Mortality is used to challenge postponement: limited time makes present conduct more important than fantasies of an indefinitely extended future.
Where does it come from?
Meditations, Book IV, section 17, in George Long’s translation.
