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Read & copy the quotation
“You will see that you have fewer years to your credit than you count.”
- Source
- On the Shortness of Life
- Date
- c. 49
- English wording
- John W. Basore — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “You will see that you have fewer years…”
Calendar age can overstate the amount of life a person has actually directed for themselves when large portions were lost to distraction and obligation.
Where does it come from?
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter III; Seneca’s imagined reckoning of an older person’s years.
