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By Lucius Seneca,James Harris

De Brevitate Vitae (frequently often called at the Shortness of lifestyles in English) is an ethical essay written via Seneca the more youthful, a Roman Stoic thinker, to his partner's father Paulinus. The thinker brings up many Stoic ideas at the nature of time, particularly that males waste a lot of it in meaningless targets. in keeping with the essay, nature supplies guy sufficient time to do what's relatively vital and the person needs to allot it safely. mostly, time could be most sensible utilized in the examine of philosophy, in accordance with Seneca.

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