Sunday, May 10, 2015

Sunday ~ May 10, 2015

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of one thing in which it is right to be stingy. You are living as if destined to live forever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don't notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply - though all the while that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be your last. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire...How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point which few have arrived!

(Seneca, 4 BCE - 65 CE)

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