It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
On the Shortness of Life, §1 (49 CE)
Author
Seneca
Verified lines from On the Shortness of Life, Letters from a Stoic.
3 verified quotes
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter XIII, 'On Groundless Fears' (65 CE)
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter CI (65 CE)