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De Brevitate Vitae is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits

On the Shortness of Life( Illustrated Edition)

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Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly. It will not lengthen itself for a king's command or a people's favour.

Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it. 

So we should buy enough books for use, and none just for embellishment.

Solitude will cure our distaste for a crowd, and a crowd will cure our boredom with solitude.

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