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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And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
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