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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9036 Marus Aurelius 121-180 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:9036
AUTHOR:Marcus Aurelius (121–180)
QUOTATION:Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair’s-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
ATTRIBUTION:Meditations. iv. 48.