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By Seneca
Thus it is: we do not receive a short life, but we make it a short one, and we are not poor in days, but wasteful of them.
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- Of the Shortness of Life, in Minor Dialogues (translated by Aubrey Stewart), 1889 · Of the Shortness of Life, chapter I, p. 289
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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 I, in Aubrey Stewart's English translation (London, 1889). Seneca addressed it to Paulinus. Seneca wrote in Latin, so this is the translator's wording.