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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire. The money, possessions, and status we chase and trade on in our day-to-day lives do not ultimately give us peace of mind or lasting pleasure. When death approaches, Seneca points out, we would exchange them all for a little more time:
So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it…. Life is long if you know how to use it.”. “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”. “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”.
Sep 1, 2014 · You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire… How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!
On the Shortness of Life Quotes Showing 1-30 of 450. “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It. 799 likes. Like. “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ...
Nov 27, 2023 · “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.” “You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed.
12. “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire. “ 13. “How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!” 14.
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Jan 26, 2023 · You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire. Seneca (On The Shortness of Life – Chapter III) On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. Seneca (Thyestes) The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
