In the canon
On the Shortness of Life
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 49 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 110
"Am I seated?" The question is real, put by a Roman who has been lifted from his bath and set down in a chair by other men's arms and no longer knows where his own body is. Seneca collects him alongside the dandies holding councils over each several hair at the barber's, and the magistrate who spends a lifetime winning the office he then spends a year begging to be free of.
Life is long enough, if you know how to use it.
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