These notes and highlights are from the book;
On The Shortness Of Life – By Seneca
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. 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.Read more at location 37
2) ‘It is a small part of life we really live.’ Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.Read more at location 49
3) Share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life! People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.Read more at location 67
4)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!Read more at location 82
5) But among the worst offenders I count those who spend all their time in drinking and lust, for these are the worst preoccupations of all.Read more at location 124
