A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a
pointed reminder to make the most of our time Who doesn't worry
sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of
time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most
of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic
philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous
answers to that question in his essay "On the Shortness of Life"-a
work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to
Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of
Seneca's brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same
theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an
inviting introduction. With devastating satiric wit, skillfully
captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander
our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don't allow
people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time,
or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca
also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and
years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or
even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind
of immortality. A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of
the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about
making our time-and our lives-count.
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