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On the Shortness of Life by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca ebook
Page: 112
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780143036326

I've just had some news which has made me thankful for everything I haveand realise it could all disappear in the blink of an eye. Sorry for the delay but hopefully I will pick it up and be more consistent. Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost imperceptible breeze. However, it was also a world of singing and dancing, of bawdy jokes and sex in all its forms, in fact a zest for life that reflected the very blunt shortness that life could take, through regular bouts of war, famine and disease. It has been awhile since I have posted on here. (Seneca, On the Shortness of Life). Seneca: On the Shortness of Life. Blow your nose and dwell on the shortness of life. So the meaning of the title, "He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn," is that there was a double-sided key to McCheyne's power: the preciousness of Christ and the painful shortness of life—or the nearness of eternity. Like Ferris I learned a lot from stoic Seneca's “On the Shortness of Life” and I'm planning to codify clearly my own philosophies in some key areas of my life. €�…the greatest waste of life exists in postponement: that is what takes away each day as it comes, that is what snatches away the present while promising something to follow.