Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
- Date
- c. 63–65
- English wording
- Richard M. Gummere — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
Seneca warns that postponement is itself a use of finite life: waiting for a more convenient future can become the very way the available present is lost.
Where does it come from?
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 1, “On Saving Time,” Richard M. Gummere translation. The line follows Seneca’s advice to hold every hour and precedes his claim that nothing is truly ours except time.
