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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it. Life is long enough... if it were all well invested.
Seneca
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter I, c. 49 AD
Translated by John W. Basore · Stoic philosophy
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Written around AD 49 as a letter to his father-in-law Paulinus, On the Shortness of Life argues that time is plentiful if used well rather than squandered on busyness.

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