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On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

So the meaning of the title, "He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn," is that there was a double-sided key to McCheyne's power: the preciousness of Christ and the painful shortness of life—or the nearness of eternity. Contact · On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. Whilst thou hast time, do whatever thou canst for eternity, mindful that they life is exceedingly short. On the Shortness of Life; Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Lucius Seneca (c. By Stephen James Carter on October 7, 2012. Soon thou must return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken; for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. They have lost their lives to their condition. Random Mumbling Bumblings by Ms Shooter at Thursday, July 31, 2008. From Ms Shooter · Home · My life in Paris · Who is Me? €�A Hundred Years Are Gone By”: Xerxes on the Brevity of Life in Herodotus' The History. 4 BC – 65 AD) 20 Responses to “60 in 60: #1 – Seneca's On the Shortness of Life (Penguin's Great Ideas)”. €�Based on this extremely acute awareness of the shortness of life, everybody argued you should find work you love; work ought to be chosen for its intrinsic value, and for its sense of enjoyment, sense of purpose. The longer you avoid the situation, the harder it can be to turn things right side up again. It's an excerpt from De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and except for a few cultural discrepancies (having slaves for example) it could just as easily have been written today.