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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life

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1 I | born for a brief span of life, because even this space 2 I | all save a very few find life at an end just when they 3 I | physicians exclaim that "life is short, art is long;" 2 4 I | that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has 5 I | was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, 6 I | increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who 7 II | has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use 8 II | an oracle: "The part of life we really live is small." 5 9 II | rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices 10 III | others to trespass upon their lifenay, they themselves even 11 III | one of us distribute his life! In guarding their fortune 12 III | farthest limit of human life, you are pressing hard upon 13 III | it; come now, recall your life and make a reckoning. Consider 14 III | have achieved in so long a life, how many have robbed you 15 III | many have robbed you of life when you were not aware 16 III | pray, have you that your life will last longer? Who will 17 III | yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom 18 III | and to intend to begin life at a point to which few 19 V | which he bewails his former life and complains of the present 20 VI | complained bitterly against the life of unrest he had had from 21 VII(14)| absorbed in the interests of life that they take no time for 22 VII | master. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and— 23 VII | more—it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. Many 24 VII | aim up to the very end of life to know how to live; yet 25 VII | them have departed from life confessing that they did 26 VII | and it follows that the life of such a man is very long 27 VII | robbed of much of their life by the public, have necessarily 28 VII | review the days of your life; you will see that very 29 VII | come?" Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning 30 VII | the rest as she likes; his life has already found safety. 31 VIII | you once more on yourself. Life will follow the path it 32 VIII | You have been engrossed, life hastens by; meanwhile death 33 IX | live better; they spend life in making ready to live! 34 IX | is the greatest waste of life; it deprives them of each 35 IX | day in hapless mortals' life~Is ever first to flee. 19 ~" 36 IX | and most swift journey of life, which we make at the same 37 X | prove that busy men find life very short. But Fabianus, 20 38 X | not merely wept over. ~ Life is divided into three periods— 39 X | into all the parts of its life; but the minds of the engrossed, 40 X | look behind. And so their life vanishes into an abyss; 41 XI | are being dragged out of life, and not merely leaving 42 XI | nothing. But for those whose life is passed remote from all 43 XII | into all the privacies of life that they can neither eat 44 XII | unlearn the habits of human life—when he had been lifted 45 XIII | spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the 46 XIV | they have prepared a way of life. By other men's labours 47 XIV | engaged in the true duties of life who shall wish to have Zeno, 48 XV | none will endanger your life, the courting of none will 49 XV | more free to admire. The life of the philosopher, therefore, 50 XV | anticipates. He makes his life long by combining all times 51 XVI | fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled; 52 XVI | any proof that they find life long. In their folly they 53 XVII | not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard 54 XVII | prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession 55 XVIII | have sustained in private life, how many, on the other, 56 XVIII | upon yourself in public life; long enough has your virtue 57 XVIII | The greater part of your life, certainly the better part 58 XVIII | the ledger of one's own life than of the corn-market. 59 XVIII | hardly adapted to the happy life, and reflect that in all 60 XIX | what pleasure, what mode of life, what shape God has; what 61 XIX | course. In this kind of life there awaits much that is 62 XIX | living and dying, and a life of deep repose. ~ The condition 63 XIX | to know how short their life is, let them reflect how 64 XX | are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their 65 XX | reckoned by their name. 44 Life has left some in the midst 66 XX | each other wretched, their life is without profit, without 67 XX | for things that lie beyond lifehuge masses of tombs and


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