"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous estimate has been given to us."
Today's Question
If you had only one month left to live, what is the useless greed among the worries you hold onto that you would drop first?
Seneca, recording time under the shadow of tyrant Emperor Nero
Seneca was a Roman statesman who lived under constant anxiety, facing the madness and political plots of his pupil Emperor Nero.
Facing the shadow of death daily, he felt the transience of time. He recorded his actions and time usage every night, and when Nero ordered his suicide, he met death calmly, defending his philosophical beliefs.