On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Life is long enough, Seneca insists, if you know how to use it. In this blazing short essay, the Roman philosopher confronts the universal complaint that time flies: we are not given a short life, we make it short, spending our best hours on busyness, postponement, and other people's demands. His remedy is presence, study, and the courage to claim your own hours. Perhaps the most widely shared piece of Stoic writing today, it lands in under an hour and echoes for years. Listen once, then guard your time differently.
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