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On the Shortness of Life
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On the Shortness of Life

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

EnglishAdded April 25, 2026

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LibriVox recording of On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. (Translated by Aubrey Stewart.) Read in English by Naduplants. De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In genera

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On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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