On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It Brochura - 2005 - 1st Edição

Detalhes

• Título On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It
• Autor Seneca; C. D. Costa (Translator)
• Encadernação Brochura
• Número da edição 1st
• Edição 1
• Páginas 112
• Volumes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Data de publicação 2005-09-06
• ISBN 9780143036326 / 0143036327
• Peso 0.2 libras (0.09 kg)
• Dimensão 7 x 4.3 x 0.3 in. (17.78 x 10.92 x 0.76 cm)
• Época de 18 a UP anos
• séries 13 - UP
• Temas
  • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Cultural Region: Italy
• Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life
• Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2005047450
• Dewey Decimal Code 188

Most human beings, Paulinus,* complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it. Nor is it just the man in the street and the unthinking mass of people who groan over this - as they see it - universal evil: the same feeling lies behind complaints from even distinguished men. Hence the dictum of the greatest of doctors:† 'Life is short, art is long.' Hence too the grievance, most improper to a wise man, which Aristotle expressed when he was taking nature to task for indulging animals with such long existences that they can live through five or ten human lifetimes, while a far shorter limit is set for men who are born to a great and extensive destiny. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.

* A friend of Seneca’s.
† Hippocrates