Life isn't short — most people just waste most of it

Seneca argued nature gave humans plenty of time; people squander it on distraction, vanity, and other people's business, then complain there wasn't enough of it. The problem was never the length of a life but how carelessly it gets spent. Someone who uses their time deliberately can pack a full life into a short one.

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life — De Brevitate Vitae, c. 49 AD
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