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Aurelius, Meditations 8.42: This time that is now present, bestow thou upon thyself.
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This time that is now present, bestow thou upon thyself. They that rather hunt for fame after death, do not consider, that those men that shall be hereafter, will be even such, as these whom now they can so hardly bear with. And besides they also will be mortal men. But to consider the thing in itself, if so many with so many voices, shall make such and such a sound, or shall have such and such an opinion concerning thee, what is it to thee?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_08_xlii
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