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It is interesting to hear Seneca recall the story of a wealthy man so pampered that he had to be told when he was sitting. Seneca says such vice and excess is not true leisure, but simply pitiful unlearning of basic human habits. Such people pass through life half-alive, wasteful and unperceptive of the time they have. This is a stern message to a modern, vice-driven, and retirement-oriented society.
— Oct 13, 2024 07:26AM
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"You will hear many men saying: 'After my fiftieth year I shall retire into leisure, my sixtieth year shall release me from public duties.' And what guarantee, pray, have you that your life will last longer? Who will suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any business."
— Oct 05, 2024 03:06AM
