Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca · 2018
88/100
👍 Worth It
Seneca wrote this nearly two thousand years ago and it still lands like a cold splash of water on the face — the argument that we do not lack time, we waste it, has never been more relevant. The Penguin Costa translation is readable and elegant, and the companion essays deepen the experience. One of the best short books you can hand a person feeling unmoored by busyness.
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Penny’s verdict88
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