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Read & copy the quotation
“If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “If these wish to know how short their…”
The felt shortness of life is linked with how little of it remains under one’s own direction after obligations and borrowed priorities consume the rest.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter XIX; Seneca closes by asking the engrossed to measure how much of their lifetime was actually their own.
