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Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Saved by Sindhu Shivaprasad
Chacun précipite le rythme de sa vie, malade de désir pour le futur, de dégoût pour le présent.
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. Only an ingrate would fail to see that these great architects of venerable thoughts were born for us and hav
... See more“Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time can’t be directed to business?” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 3.5b
This was why Seneca, in On the Shortness of Life, came down so hard on his fellow Romans for pursuing political careers they didn’t really care about, holding elaborate banquets they didn’t especially enjoy, or just “baking their bodies in the sun”: they didn’t seem to realize that in succumbing to such diversions, they were squandering the very st
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