It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. Life is long enough and our allotted portion generous enough for our most ambitious projects if we invest it all carefully.
But when it is squandered through luxury and indifference, and spent for no good end, we realise it has gone, under the pressure of the ultimate necessity, before we were aware it was going.
So it is: the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill-provided but use what we have wastefully.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (49 CE), from "On the shortness of life"
But when it is squandered through luxury and indifference, and spent for no good end, we realise it has gone, under the pressure of the ultimate necessity, before we were aware it was going.
So it is: the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill-provided but use what we have wastefully.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (49 CE), from "On the shortness of life"
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