Meditations VII.56

As one that is dead, and his life till now lived and gone, must thou count the rest of thy days as so much to the good,⁷⁰ and live according to Nature.

• 70.Compare Seneca’s Epistles 12, near the end: Quisquis dixit “Vixi,” quotidie ad lucrum surgit.

  Seneca’s Latin, in translation: “whoever has said ‘I have lived’ rises every day to a gain.”