Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Postponement is the greatest waste of life.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “Postponement is the greatest waste of life.”
Delay is costly because it exchanges a real day for a future that remains uncertain and therefore cannot be spent yet.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter IX; sentence in Seneca’s criticism of distant plans that steal the present.
