"Busy men find life very short:" Seneca on…

Jan 2, 2017

Yesterday I read Seneca's essay "On The Shortness of Life." I read his Letters from a Stoic when I was on sabbatical in Cambridge, and recently saw a reference to this essay that made me curious to read it.

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