On the futility of planning ahead
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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.
8.
The greatest flaw in life is that it is always imperfect, and that a certain part of it is postponed.
One who daily puts the finishing touches to his life is never in want of time.
And yet, from this want arise fear and a craving for the future which eats away the mind.
There is nothing more wretched than worry over the outcome of future events; as to the amount or the nature of that which remains, our troubled minds are set a-flutter with unaccountable fear.
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 8
Content:
8.
The greatest flaw in life is that it is always imperfect, and that a certain part of it is postponed.
One who daily puts the finishing touches to his life is never in want of time.
And yet, from this want arise fear and a craving for the future which eats away the mind.
There is nothing more wretched than worry over the outcome of future events; as to the amount or the nature of that which remains, our troubled minds are set a-flutter with unaccountable fear.