Meditations 11.33

To look for the fig in winter is a mad-man's act: such is he who looks for his child when it is no longer allowed.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.33, translated by George Long

Only a madman will look for figs in winter. No better is he who looks for a child when he may no longer have one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.33, translated by C. R. Haines