On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
Let’s just be aware that not every headline is important, we won’t miss out. On the contrary, we risk wasting our time, as Seneca observes: “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
... See moreJonas Salzgeber • The Little Book of Stoicism
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.
Seneca • On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
“How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements—how little of your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before your time!” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 3.3b