Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “You squander time as if you drew from…”
Time is treated as a finite resource that becomes easy to waste when its remaining amount is assumed rather than known.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter III; part of Seneca’s warning against acting as though every day were guaranteed.
