On the Shortness of Life
Today, I heard Fred Edwords speak on the Stoic philosophers and their views of living the good life. Most memorable are his readings from the works of Seneca, which I found online as translated for the Loeb Classical Library.
"The majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live."
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"The majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live."
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posted by metamerist at
6:47 PM
2 Comments:
Wonderful essay indeed - added to my bookmarks.
Thanks
jeff
You're welcome.
One of these rainy Sundays, I hope to sit down and read the entire Loeb Classical Library. If it rains on the Saturday before, maybe I'll even have time to learn Greek and Latin first, so I can read both the originals and the translations.
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