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4 BCE–65 CE · Stoicism

Seneca on time

For Seneca the problem was never that life is short but that we squander it. Life is long enough, he insisted, if you stop letting it leak away on things that do not matter.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

Seneca — On the Shortness of Life

Try this

Guard your time as the one thing you cannot earn back.
Audit where the hours actually go, honestly.

Questions

What did Seneca say about time?

For Seneca the problem was never that life is short but that we squander it. Life is long enough, he insisted, if you stop letting it leak away on things that do not matter.

Where did Seneca write about time?

In On the Shortness of Life.

Ask Seneca about your time

Put your own situation to Seneca and hear the answer in their own words.