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On the Shortness of Life

By: Lucius Seneca
Narrated by: Clint Arthur
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The majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live. Nor is it merely the common herd and the unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal ill; the same feeling has called forth complaint also from men who were famous.

Public Domain (P)2015 Clint Arthur
Career Success Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success Stoicism Seneca Shortness
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Very good insights into the human experience. Good reading. Quick book that can be reviewed regularly to remind you to live to the full

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