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By Seneca
You fear everything, like mortals as you are, and yet you desire everything as if you were immortals.
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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. 293
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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.