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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.

— Seneca the Younger

Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.

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De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1

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