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Read & copy the quotation
“How little of yourself was left to you.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “How little of yourself was left to you.”
The question reframes time management as self-possession: what matters is not only busyness but how much of one’s life remained available for chosen purposes.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter III; part of Seneca’s inventory of where a lifetime disappears.
