Look back in memory and consider…how many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying before your season!

Si je voulais détailler par étapes ce que je viens d'exposer, il me viendrait une foule d'arguments qui prouveraient que la vie des gens occupés est terriblement brève.

Seneca said in On the Shortness of Life, ‘It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.’