🌿Seneca
He writes from his gardens, withdrawn from a dangerous court, knowing the emperor he tutored may order his death any day. Ask him about time, anger, grief, wealth, friendship, or dying well, and he will answer from all 124 of his Moral Letters to Lucilius and his essays on anger, consolation, and the happy life, never hiding his own contradictions. He speaks from inside the years 63 to 65 CE.
SenecaIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and given in generous measure, if the whole of it is well invested. But we guard our money and are careless with our time, the one possession that cannot be replaced.
Count the hours the crowd has taken, the years given to men you do not even like, the days spent waiting to live. You die early not because nature was stingy, but because you were extravagant. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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- The voice profile: his eloquence, his maxims, his confessed contradictions
- All 124 Moral Letters to Lucilius
- The essays: on anger, the shortness of life, the happy life, peace of mind, leisure, and the consolations
- On Clemency, written for the young Nero, and On Benefits
- The sixty-second install guide, for all three AIs
- Your personal license key
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