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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life

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1 I | we have a short space of time, but that we waste much 2 II | is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround 3 II | another when he himself has no time to attend to himself? After 4 III | to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one 5 III | Consider how much of your time was taken up with a moneylender, 6 III | own acts, add, too, the time that has lain idle and unused; 7 III | enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you 8 III | take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full 9 III | apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted 10 IV | distant, my desire for that time most earnestly prayed for 11 IV | was Paulus, and a second time the need to fear a woman 12 VI | swallow up any amount of time. The space you have, which 13 VII | count also those who have time for nothing but wine and 14 VII(14)| of life that they take no time for philosophy. ~ 15 VII | people, 15 see how much time they give to accounts, how 16 VII | good, do not allow them time to breathe. ~ Finally, everybody 17 VII | not to allow any of his time to be filched from him, 18 VII | wholly to himself whatever time he has had. None of it lay 19 VII | taken in exchange for his time. And so that man had time 20 VII | time. And so that man had time enough, but those who have 21 VII | says: "When will vacation time come?" Everyone hurries 22 VII | he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans 23 VII(18)| At this time the management of the public 24 VIII | see some men demanding the time of others and those from 25 VIII | object of the request for time, neither of them on the 26 VIII | neither of them on the time itself; just as if what 27 VIII | But no one sets a value on time; all use it lavishly as 28 VIII | know how precious a thing time is; for to those whom they 29 IX | therefore you must vie with time's swiftness in the speed 30 IX | unconcerned and slow though time flies so fast? The poet 31 X | be. Of these the present time is short, the future is 32 X | lose this; for they have no time to look back upon the past, 33 X | this is the part of our time that is sacred and set apart, 34 X | offers only one day at a time, and each by minutes; but 35 X | but all the days of past time will appear when you bid 36 X | who are engrossed have no time to do. The mind that is 37 X | receive and hold it, so with time—it makes no difference how 38 X | holes of the mind. Present time is very brief, so brief, 39 X | are concerned with present time alone, and it is so brief 40 XI | deceived Fate at the same time. But when at last some infirmity 41 XII | their fingers as they beat time to some song they have in 42 XII | the master of any of his time? ~ 43 XIII | triflers who spend their time on useless literary problems, 44 XIV | are at leisure who take time for philosophy, they alone 45 XIV | there is a great stretch of time through which we may roam. 46 XIV | paltry and fleeting span of time and surrender ourselves 47 XV | nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down and remove. 48 XV | him as if a god. Has some time passed by? This he embraces 49 XV | embraces by recollection. Is time present? This he uses. Is 50 XVI | that they are living a long time—the fact that the day often 51 XVI | hours pass slowly until the time set for dinner arrives; 52 XVI | leisure or to drag out the time. And so they strive for 53 XVI | and all the intervening time is irksome; exactly as they 54 XVI | waiting for the appointed time of some other show or amusement, 55 XVI | seems long to them. Yet the time which they enjoy is short 56 XVII | end to which it must some time come. When the King of Persia, 34 57 XVII | flight, and within a short time was to destroy all those 58 XVII | source of anxiety, and at no time is fortune less wisely trusted 59 XVII | they take no account of time that will never more return. 60 XVII | others take more of our time. Have we ceased to labour 61 XVIII | much storm-tossed for the time you have lived, at length 62 XVIII | take now some part of your time for yourself as well. And


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