On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
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A Stoic meditation on time, mortality, and the urgency of living deliberately.
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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
“So it is we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”