Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca the Younger. "On the Shortness of Life." On the Shortness of Life: Life is Long If You Know How to Use It, translated by C. D. N. Costa. Penguin Books, 2005.

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Seneca the Younger. De Brevitate Vitae [On The Shortness of Life]. c. 49 AD.

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