On the shortness of life is my favorite introductory material to figuring out how to do just that. On the shortness of life life is long if you know how to use it life is long if you know how to use it by seneca translated by c. 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. Throughout history, some books have changed the world.
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