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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

About Seneca

4 BC – 65

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. His letters and essays on Stoic philosophy remain some of antiquity's most readable and practically applicable works.

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