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“Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.”
― Seneca

“The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“No delicate breeze brings comfort with icy breath of wind
to the hearts which pant on the flames.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies