A friend complains that life is too short. Seneca's answer, written around AD 49, is that we are not given a short life, we make it one. The busy man postpones living until his work is finished, and it never is finished. What follows is the hardest look any ancient took at how a man spends the one thing he cannot earn back.
This edition carries two more dialogues from the same volume. Of Peace of Mind, on the restlessness that drives men from house to house and mood to mood, and what steadies it. Of Providence, on why hard things fall to good men, and why Seneca counted that a favor rather than a punishment.
This is the Civil Savage Society edition of the Aubrey Stewart translation of 1889, newly typeset in a 6 by 9 inch US Trade format, 80 pages, complete and unabridged.
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