On the futility of planning ahead
101:7
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
7.
Yet what is more foolish than to wonder that something which may happen every day has happened on any one day?
There is indeed a limit fixed for us, just where the remorseless law of Fate has fixed it; but none of us knows how near he is to this limit.
Therefore, let us so order our minds as if we had come to the very end.
Let us postpone nothing.
Let us balance life’s account every day.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the futility of planning ahead
Location: Chapter 101, Section 7
Content:
7.
Yet what is more foolish than to wonder that something which may happen every day has happened on any one day?
There is indeed a limit fixed for us, just where the remorseless law of Fate has fixed it; but none of us knows how near he is to this limit.
Therefore, let us so order our minds as if we had come to the very end.
Let us postpone nothing.
Let us balance life’s account every day.