Another, more modern translation, from the Oxford world classics edition by Robin Hard: 14. Even if you were to live for three thousand years or ten times as l

Another, more modern translation, from the Oxford world classics edition by Robin Hard: 14. Even if you were to live for three thousand years or ten times as long, you should still remember this, that no one loses any life other than the one that he is living, nor does he live any life other than the one that he loses, so the shortest life and the longest amount to the same. For the present is equal for all, and what is passing must be equal also, so what can be lost is shown to be nothing more than a moment; and no one could lose either the past or the future, for how could he be deprived of what he does not possess? So always bear in mind these two points: firstly that all things are alike in nature from all eternity and recur in cycles, and it therefore makes no difference whether one sees the same spectacle for a hundred years or two hundred or for time everlasting; and secondly that the longest-lived and the earliest to die suffer an equal loss; for it is solely of the present moment that each will be deprived, if it is really the case that this is all he has and a person cannot lose what he does not have. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/meditations-9780199573202 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/meditations-97801995...