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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life

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1 I | great achievements. It is not that we have a short space 2 I | isthe life we receive is not short, but we make it so, 3 II | the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices 4 II | every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and 5 II | another's company, but could not endure your own. ~ 6 II(6) | Not one who undertook the actual 7 III | of the human mind. Men do not suffer anyone to seize their 8 III | you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, 9 III | as you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself 10 IV | than to any other man, did not cease to pray for rest and 11 IV | promised that his rest would not be devoid of dignity nor 12 IV | thought because he could not attain it in reality. He 13 IV | being whetted to slay him. Not yet had he escaped their 14 V | lauded without end, though not without reason! How tearful 15 V(12) | Not extant. ~~ 16 VI | verdict. To what lengths was not such premature ambition 17 VI | you quickly; for you do not seize it, you neither hold 18 VII | call them evil or good, do not allow them time to breathe. ~ 19 VII | confessing that they did not yet knowstill less do those 20 VII | far above human weaknesses not to allow any of his time 21 VII | suppose that these people are not sometimes aware of their 22 VII | and your like on the list, not of his friends, but of his 23 VII | takes the food which he does not desire and yet can hold. 24 VII | hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived longhe has existed 25 VII | around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, 26 VIII | incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight of 27 VIII | which will fail you know not when. ~ Yet there is no 28 VIII | suppose that these people do not know how precious a thing 29 VIII | But the very thing they do not know is whether they are 30 VIII | will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. 31 VIII | it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command 32 IX | that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink 33 IX | delay, in that he says, not "the fairest age," but " 34 IX | and unexpectedly, they did not notice that it was drawing 35 X | passions with main force, not with artifice, and that 36 X | turned by a bold attack, not by inflicting pinpricks; 37 X | pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable, for the passions 38 X | for the passions must be, not nipped, but crushed. Yet, 39 X | they must be instructed, not merely wept over. Life 40 X | they should have, it is not pleasant to recall something 41 X | of momentary pleasure, do not have the courage to revert 42 XI | want to know how they do not "live long"? See how eager 43 XI | dragged out of life, and not merely leaving it. They 44 XI | fools, because they have not really lived, and that they 45 XI | for things which they did not enjoy, and how all their 46 XI | business, why should it not be ample? None of it is 47 XI | come, the wise man will not hesitate to go to meet death 48 XII | say that these are living, not in leisure, but in busy 49 XII | labour with vices that are not even Roman) watching the 50 XII | out of order, if it does not all fall into its proper 51 XII | ringlets! Who of these would not rather have the state disordered 52 XII | disordered than his hair? Who is not more concerned to have his 53 XII | rather than safe? Who would not rather be well barbered 54 XII | melancholy, matters? These have not leisure, but idle occupation. 55 XII | ostentation. And I would not count these among the leisured 56 XII | that this man, who does not know whether he is sitting, 57 XII | him more if he really did not know, or if he pretended 58 XII | know, or if he pretended not to know this. They really 59 XII | down! This man, then, is not at leisure, you must apply 60 XIII | bodies in the sun. They are not unoccupied whose pleasures 61 XIII | fight to the death? That is not enough! Are they torn to 62 XIII | torn to pieces? That is not enough! Let them be crushed 63 XIII | or because the birds had not been favourable when Remus 64 XIII | doubtful whether it was not better not to apply oneself 65 XIII | whether it was not better not to apply oneself to any 66 XIV | really live; for they are not content to be good guardians 67 XIV | every age, why should we not turn from this paltry and 68 XIV | concealed door as if it were not more discourteous to deceive 69 XIV | No one of these will be "not at home," no one of these 70 XV | fault of theirs if you do not draw the utmost that you 71 XV | wont to say that it was not in our power to choose the 72 XV | adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even 73 XV | that the lapse of time does not tear down and remove. But 74 XV | has wide range, and he is not confined by the same bounds 75 XVI | nothing to do, and they do not know how to dispose of their 76 XVI | one desire. Their days are not long to them, but hateful; 77 XVII | possessed, and they have not so much delighted in the 78 XVII | the vast plains and could not grasp its number but simply 79 XVII | inside of a hundred years not a man of such a mighty army 80 XVII | from fear? Because they do not rest on stable causes, but 81 XVII | wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life 82 XVII | to new ambition. They do not seek an end of their wretchedness, 83 XVII | for his brother's, did he not stand in his own way, he 84 XVII(39)| He did not allow his statue to be placed 85 XVIII | yourself as well. And I do not summon you to slothful or 86 XVIII | dear to the crowd. That is not to rest; you will find far 87 XVIII | earliest years, you were not aiming at thisthat it might 88 XIX | in seeing that it does not become heated and spoiled 89 XIX | at engrossments that are not even their own, who regulate 90 XX | famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are 91 XX | its old master, and did not end its sorrow until his 92 XX | them aside. The law does not draft a soldier after his 93 XX | his fiftieth year, it does not call a senator after his


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