A two thousand year of 'tour de force', still valid and relevant today as it was in Rome all those years ago. A way of living, a way of dying, a way of seeking solace and a way of finding your path. Even the current 'YOLO' stuff is a variation on Seneca!
Something to return to until it's our own time to go.
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
“Life is long, if you know how to use it.”
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
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