Seneca on Pavan Yarahttps://pavanyara.com/tags/seneca/Recent content in Seneca on Pavan YaraHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USpavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)Pavan YaraThu, 22 Jan 2015 12:36:00 +0530Prepare for None of It to Workhttps://pavanyara.com/blog/prepare-for-none-of-it-to-work/Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:36:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/prepare-for-none-of-it-to-work/<blockquote> <p>*In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases. *</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <ul> <li></li> </ul> </blockquote> <blockquote> <ul> <li>*—SENECA</li> </ul> </blockquote>

*In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases. *

  • *—SENECA
]]>On the Shortness of Life!https://pavanyara.com/blog/on-the-shortness-of-life/Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:52:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/on-the-shortness-of-life/<blockquote> <p>It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.</p>

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.

  • Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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