Fortune can do whatever she wants with everyone else — this man's life is already secure. He might gain something, but he can't lose anything. It's like someone who is already full getting extra food. He takes it, but he doesn't really want it. Don't think someone has lived a long life just because they have wrinkles or gray hair. That person hasn't lived long — they've just been alive for a long time. Would you say a sailor has traveled far if a storm caught him right after leaving port? What if he got blown in circles by winds from every direction? He hasn't traveled much. He's just been tossed around a lot.
Fortune may deal with the rest as she will, his life is already safe from her: such a man may gain something, but cannot lose anything: and, indeed, he can only gain anything in the same way as one who is already glutted and filled can get some extra food which he takes although he does not want it. You have no grounds, therefore, for supposing that any one has lived long, because he has wrinkles or grey hairs: such a man has not lived long, but has only been long alive. Why! would you think that a man had voyaged much if a fierce gale had caught him as soon as he left his port, and he had been driven round and round the same place continually by a succession of winds blowing from opposite quarters? such a man has not travelled much, he has only been much tossed about.