Meditations 6.49

Reflections on Marcus Aurelius

You are not dissatisfied, I suppose, because you weigh only so many litrae and not three hundred?

Be not dissatisfied then that you must live only so many years, and not more. For as you are satisfied with the amount of substance that has been assigned to you, so be content with the time.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6.49 (tr Long)

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