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Short But Good, Long But Bad

Practical Stoicism

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The Benefits of a Long Life

"What benefit does this older man derive from the eighty years he has spent in idleness? A person like him has not lived, he has merely carried a while in life," writes Lucilius. "We should praise and number in the company of the blessed, that man who has invested well the portion of time."

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