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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life

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1 III | possess it. No one is to be found who is willing to 2 III | in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves 3 III | will suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are 4 III | only that time which cannot be devoted to any business? 5 IV | desire at times, if it could be with safety, to descend 6 IV | that his rest would not be devoid of dignity nor inconsistent 7 IV | But these matters can be shown better by deeds than 8 IV | league with an Antony.10 When be had cut away these ulcers11 9 V | it from destruction, to be at last swept away, unable 10 V | away, unable as he was to be restful in prosperity or 11 V | lowly a term, never will he be half a prisonerhe who always 12 V | others. For what can possibly be above him who is above Fortune? ~ 13 VI | it was timely. ~ It would be superfluous to mention more 14 VI | superfluous and that could be replaced. ~ 15 VII | that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by 16 VII | allow any of his time to be filched from him, and it 17 VII | nothing that was worthy to be taken in exchange for his 18 VII | over: "When will this year be over!" That man gives games,18 19 VII | now says: "When shall I be rid of them?" That advocate 20 VII | stretches farther than he can be heard, yet he says: "When 21 VII | found safety. Something may be added to it, but nothing 22 VIII | how alarmed those would be who saw only a few remaining, 23 VIII | sparing of them would they be! And yet it is easy to dispense 24 VIII | matter how small it may be; but that must be guarded 25 VIII | it may be; but that must be guarded more carefully which 26 VIII | it delay. And what will be the result? You have been 27 VIII | by; meanwhile death will be at hand, for which, willy 28 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier than the point of 29 IX | engaged in order that they may be able to live better; they 30 X | that the battle-line must be turned by a bold attack, 31 X | serviceable, for the passions must be, not nipped, but crushed. 32 X | the victims of them nay be censured, each for his own 33 X | fault, I say that they must be instructed, not merely wept 34 X | which is, that which will be. Of these the present time 35 X | is the one which cannot be brought back under any man' 36 X | disease; this can neither be troubled nor be snatched 37 X | neither be troubled nor be snatched away—it is an everlasting 38 X | that to some there seems to be none; for it is always in 39 X | hurries on; it ceases to be before it has come, and 40 X | so brief that it cannot be grasped, and even this is 41 XI | business, why should it not be ample? None of it is assigned 42 XII | safe? Who would not rather be well barbered than upright? 43 XII | movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into the 44 XII | someone to tell himhow can he be the master of any of his 45 XIII | XIII. It would be tedious to mention all the 46 XIII | to the state; there will be no profit in such knowledge, 47 XIII | surname Messana because be had transferred the name 48 XIII | you will permit someone to be interested also in this— 49 XIII | is not enough! Let them be crushed by animals of monstrous 50 XIII | monstrous bulk! Better would it be that these things pass into 51 XIII | man should learn them and be jealous of an act that was 52 XIII | who itself was soon to be forced to shed more. he 53 XIII | twenty captured elephants to be led before his car; that 54 XIII | still whose mistakes will be made fewer by such stories? 55 XIV | they are not content to be good guardians of their 56 XIV | desires, how few will they be able to see? How many will 57 XIV | see? How many will there be who either from sleep or 58 XIV | will rush by, pretending to be in a hurry! How many will 59 XIV | day. No one of these will be "not at home," no one of 60 XV | whatever you wish; it will be no fault of theirs if you 61 XV | men by chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we 62 XV | one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit 63 XV | property, which there will be no need to guard in a mean 64 XV | philosophy has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy 65 XVII | such a mighty army would be alive.36 But he who wept 66 XVII | must the life of those be who work hard to gain what 67 XVII | judge. Has a man ceased to be a judge? He becomes president 68 XVII | his dictatorship? He will be called back to it from the 69 XVII | in his own way, he would be set beside Jove39; but the 70 XVII(39)| not allow his statue to be placed in the Capitol. ~~ 71 XVII | Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of 72 XVIII | aiming at thisthat it might be safe to entrust many thousand 73 XVIII | and more lofty. There will be no lack of men of tested 74 XVIII | with good reason, you may be sure. For certain maladies 75 XVIII | For certain maladies must be treated while the patient 76 XX | act, ordered himself to be laid out on his bed and 77 XX | laid out on his bed and to be mourned by the assembled 78 XX | body, they judge old age to be a hardship on no other score 79 XX | funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of


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