On the Shortness of Life
By Seneca
- Release Date: 2024-05-30
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
De Brevitate Vitae is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his fatherinlaw Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.