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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

On the Shortness of Life, Ch. 1

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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

On the Shortness of Life, Ch. 1

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