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De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License . An XML version of this text is available for download, with the ...
Jul 23, 2019 · Chapter I. →. De Brevitate Vitae —"On the Shortness of Life". Translated by John W. Basore, Loeb Classical Library London: William Heinemann, 1932. TO PAULINUS. ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. Contents. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter VIII. Chapter IX. Chapter XIII. Chapter XIV. Chapter XVIII. Chapter XIX. Chapter XX.
L. ANNAEI SENECAE AD PAVLINVM DE BREVITATE VITAE I. 1 Maior pars mortalium, Pauline, de naturae malignitate conqueritur, quod in exiguum aeui gignimur, quod haec tam uelociter, tam rapide dati nobis temporis spatia decurrant, adeo ut exceptis admodum paucis ceteros in ipso uitae apparatu uita destituat. Nec huic publico, ut opinantur, malo ...
Liber X , ad Pavlinvm : de brevitate vitae. 1. Maior pars mortalium, Pauline, de naturae malignitate conqueritur, quod in exiguum aevi gignamur, quod haec tam velociter, tam rapide dati nobis temporis spatia decurrant, adeo ut exceptis admodum paucis ceteros in ipso vitae apparatu vita destituat . Nec huic publico, ut opinantur, malo turba ...
Caligula was dead when Seneca wrote De Brevitate Vitae. The phrase ' modo modo intra paucos illos dies quibus C. Caesar periit . . . i1 might suggest a date in the 40's. But, in a letter, lamenting the briefness of life, Seneca remarks on the distant events to which an old man's memory can apply modo: 'Et tamen hoc " modo " aetatis nostrae bona ...
