For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one
take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points:
first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes
round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man
shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred,
or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the
shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, ii, 14
