On the Shortness of Life
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Quotes
- Life, if you know how to use it, is long.
- Most people, Paulinus, complain about the malevolence of nature: we are born for a brief span, and the years allotted to us rush by so swiftly and so suddenly that, except for a very few, life is over just when we are getting ready to live.
- No one values time; they receive it as a gift.
- We do not receive a short life, but we make it so; and we are not poor, but wasteful.
- Life is divided into three periods: what was, what is, and what will be. Of these, the present is short, the future is uncertain, the past is certain.
Date of publication: 23 August 2024
———On the Shortness of Life
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Genre: Philosophy