Did you love Ethan Frome? Then you should read On The Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae by Seneca!
Life is long if you know how to use it.
From the author of Letters From A Stoic (Epistulae Moralis), comes another brilliant, timeless guide to living well.
Written as a moral essay to his friend Paulinus, Seneca’s biting words still pack a powerful punch two thousand years later. With its brash rejection of materialism, conventional lifestyles and group-think, ‘On The Shortness of Life’ is as relevant as ever. Seneca anticipates the modern world. It’s a unique expose of how people get caught up in the rat race and how for those stuck in this mindset, enough is never enough. The ‘busy’ individuals of Rome Seneca makes reference to, those people who are too preoccupied with their caree
