Summary
Seneca: How to live
Who hasn't wondered from time to time how much time smartphones, the Internet and television steal from us, preventing us from living a real life?
How can we use our time on earth in the best possible way?
In his essay On the Shortness of Time, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger gave one of the loudest answers to this topic, and this work has more to teach us today than ever before.
With satirical an ingenuity that is skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca mocks the ways in which we waste time and fail to realize how precious it is. We do not allow people to steal our money, but we allow them to rob us of our time, or spend it ourselves in useless, futile pastimes. Seneca also describes how we can enrich the days and years that pass quickly because, he claims, we can prolong our lives, or even make them eternal - to truly live means to achieve a kind of immortality.
As a counterbalance to everything that in the modern world unnecessarily takes up our hours and days, How to Live offers invaluable wisdom about how our time, and our life, has a much deeper meaning. meaning.
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