On the Shortness of Life

by Seneca

meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly

So true even 2,000 years after...

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and

21st Century speaking...

Another through hope of profit is driven headlong over all lands and seas by the greed of trading.

So 21st Century picture

‘It is a small part of life we really live.’ Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.

Woww

he has not lived long, just existed long.

Living v. existence

in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives.

21st century malaise @ 0.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Plower of now

preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over.

:(

The man who must fear his own memory is the one who has been ambitious in his greed, arrogant in his contempt, uncontrolled in his victories, treacherous in his deceptions, rapacious in his plundering, and wasteful in his squandering.

21st century man

however short, it is fully sufficient,

Life is not sort.

But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.

Is it even life?

‘How long will this last?’

21st century man's reaction to joy

life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil.

If life is short, it is already miserable.

It is a shameful sight when an elderly man runs out of breath while he is pleading in court for litigants who are total strangers to him, and trying to win the applause of the ignorant bystanders.

Lawyers experience different feelings thereby. STRONGLY DISAGREE!