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Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.17 · trans. George Long (1862)
Context
Marcus Aurelius writes this to himself, not to us. The brevity is the point — there is no padding because there is no time. Many Stoic passages on death are long and argumentative. This one is the executive summary.