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Just reread my alltime favorite essay and ill be reading this over and over again throughout my life. Lucius annaeus seneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born in spain around 4bc. Apr, 2017 on the shortness of life summary april, 2017 march 30, 2019 niklas goeke self improvement 1sentencesummary. Most human beings, paulinus, complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it. May 14, 2016 full audiobook reading of on the shortness of life by seneca. On the shortness of life is a moral essay written by seneca the younger, a roman stoic philosopher, to his fatherinlaw paulinus. Last week, around 30,000 people downloaded books from my site 8 people. Medea and the daughters of troy lucius annaeus seneca. This selection of seneca s orks was taken from the penguin classics edition of dialogues and letters, translated by c. On anger, on mercy, on the private life, and the first four books of on favours. Here are 10 quotes from the book that really outline the stoic philosophy and how it relates to life today. On the shortness of life epub ebook download seneca epub seneca epub on the shortness of life. Written as a moral essay to his friend paulinus, seneca s biting words still pack a powerful punch two thousand years later. Of the shortness of life by lucius annaeus seneca loyal books.
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