On the Shortness of Life

On the Shortness of Life

By
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
2023

De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The essay argues that time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life. 

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