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On the Shortness of Life

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On the Shortness of Life

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

English· 01:37:55· 20 chapters
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. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    I

    03:20
  2. Chapter 2

    II

    05:59
  3. Chapter 3

    III

    05:26
  4. Chapter 4

    IV

    05:10
  5. Chapter 5

    V

    02:12
  6. Chapter 6

    VI

    03:34
  7. Chapter 7

    VII

    08:20
  8. Chapter 8

    VIII

    04:20
  9. Chapter 9

    IX

    04:09
  10. Chapter 10

    X

    05:29
  11. Chapter 11

    XI

    02:31
  12. Chapter 12

    XII

    07:49
  13. Chapter 13

    XIII

    07:39
  14. Chapter 14

    XIV

    04:52
  15. Chapter 15

    XV

    04:10
  16. Chapter 16

    XVI

    03:42
  17. Chapter 17

    XVII

    05:49
  18. Chapter 18

    XVIII

    05:06
  19. Chapter 19

    XIX

    03:09
  20. Chapter 20

    XX

    05:09