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Seneca：Life Is Not Short
Seneca《Of the Shortness of Life》· Chapter I · Character · Philosophy · Cognition · Action
We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it: life is long enough to carry out the most important projects
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Locator：Of the Shortness of Life, Chapter I · Verified：2026-10-19 · Verification：Public-domain translation
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Life is not short; we waste much of it. It is long enough for the most important work.
Context
The opening of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, addressed to Paulinus. He is not consoling us that life is short; he is accusing us of wasting it.
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