Marcus Aurelius wrote the phrase 'Live a good life'

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Wikiquote: Marcus Aurelius. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

This quote may be a paraphrase of "Meditations", Book II

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