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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase
What it means today

The greater loss is not the end of life but a life never truly begun — spent hesitating, postponing, and hiding from the things that matter. Begin; that is the only answer to mortality.

Try this todayStart one thing today that you have been putting off out of fear of how it will turn out.
Today’s questionAm I more afraid of dying, or of never really living?
#living#mortality#begin
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