Seneca's Dialogues - Complete collection of Seneca's stoic essays and letters (Annotated, Unabridged & updated for modern readers) (Stoic collections Book 2)

by Seneca

we are born only for a short space of time, and that this allotted period of life runs away so swiftly, nay so hurriedly, that with but few exceptions men’s life comes to an end just as they are preparing to enjoy it: