Though thou shouldest be going to live three thousand years and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
In his meditations, this passage emphasizes that regardless of life's length, one only ever loses or lives the present moment.
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