It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
— Seneca
Verified source: On the Shortness of Life, Section 1
Seneca opens his most famous essay with this provocation. The problem is not mortality — it is the frittering away of the time we do have on things that do not matter to us. Written for his father-in-law Paulinus, it is a plea to stop deferring the life you actually want to live.
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