下面是两段书摘,以飨读者:
虽然你打算活三千年,活数万年,但还是要记住:任何人失去的不是什么别的生活,而只是他现在所过的生活;任何人所过的也不是什么别的生活,而只是他现在失去的生活。最长和最短的生命就如此成为同一。虽然那已逝去的并不相同,但现在对于所有人都是同样的。所以那丧失的看来就只是一单纯的片刻。因为一个人不可能丧失过去或未来-一个人没有的东西,有什么人能从他夺走呢?这样你就必须把这两件事牢记在心:一是所有来自永恒的事物犹如形式,是循环往复的,一个人是在一百年还是在两千年或无限的时间里看到同样的事物,这对他都是一回事;二是生命最长者和濒临死亡者失去的是同样的东西。因为,惟一能从一个人那里夺走的只是现在。如果这是真的,即一个人只拥有现在,那么一个人就不可能丧失一件他并不拥有的东西。
Though thou shouldst 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. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? These two things then thou must bear in mind; the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that the longest liver and he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.
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