Seneca: On the Shortness of Life, III
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
Reflection
Rather than a rebuke, treat this as an audit. Where did your attention actually go this week, and which of those hours were chosen rather than defaulted into?
Source record
- Author
- Seneca
- Original source
- On the Shortness of Life, III
- Original date
- c. 49 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. Aubrey Stewart, 1900 — public domain
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