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Read & copy the quotation
“Now while the blood is hot, we must enter with brisk step upon the better course.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “Now while the blood is hot, we must…”
Improvement is treated as work for the available present, not a project reserved for an imagined later period when energy and opportunity may be smaller.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter XIX; Seneca urges a move from borrowed busyness toward study, virtue, and a more deliberate course of life.
