Meditations 11.35

The unripe grape, the ripe bunch, the dried grape, are all changes, not into nothing, but into something which exists not yet.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.35, translated by George Long

The grape unripe, mellow, dried-in every stage we have a change, not into non-existence, but into the not now existent.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.35, translated by C. R. Haines