"Time is not a short time, but we waste a lot of it" (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

It's not true that life is short; rather, the important thing is to spend it well. Not suffocating in an eternal present.

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DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a revolutionary philosopher from the point of view of thought. Even with regard to life, of time that runs away and we can never catch, of time that passes and overwhelms useight the avalanche of brevity.

An entire literature, from the Greeks to the Romans, was inspired by this concept: life is short, time It goes by very quickly, you have to seize the moment. Seneca, instead, in an extraordinary text, not by chance entitled The brevity of life, which we suggest reading in the Einaudi paperback edition, reverse the paradigm. And he writes: «In reality it is not true that we have little time, rather we waste a lot of itThe life given to us is long enough to accomplish the greatest deeds, provided it is well spent; but if it is squandered in luxury and idleness, if it is not used usefully, only when we reach the inevitable end do we realize that it has passed almost without us noticing. In a breathless chase di un eternal present.

Seneca's modernity is very powerful. In the age of haste, of always running, of being trapped in the time, the great philosopher shows us a tailor-made antidote to live in the full meaning of this verb: don't waste timeGiving meaning to life, every day, with the passion and energy of those who have the ambition to leave a mark, even the smallest. Seneca writes: "Life isn't short at all, we make it that way.". Clear?

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