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By Seneca
You cannot find any one who wants to distribute his money; yet among how many people does every one distribute his life? men covetously guard their property from waste, but when it comes to waste of time, they are most prodigal of that of which it would become them to be sparing.
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- Of the Shortness of Life, in Minor Dialogues (translated by Aubrey Stewart), 1889 · Of the Shortness of Life, chapter III, p. 292
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- Translated by Aubrey Stewart (George Bell and Sons, London, 1889); Project Gutenberg text, eBook #64576
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From On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae), chapter III, in Aubrey Stewart's English translation (London, 1889). Seneca wrote in Latin, so this is the translator's wording.