“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. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good
activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize
that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are
not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied
but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
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