We’re looking at letter one from Seneca’s letter from a Stoic and gleaning wisdom. Today topic…Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.

And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay.

I advise you, however, to keep what is really yours; and you cannot begin too early.