Is there perhaps no more precious good than the time we have (or do not have) at our disposal;

Life lasts as long as it should and provides us with enough time, as long as we make good use of it from the beginning to the end. When we simply squander our days, we reach the very end without realizing how quickly it approached. That’s how it is: the life we have is not short; we make it short. Nor are we lacking time. We waste time.

In "On the Shortness of Life," a text that seems incredible to have been written two thousand years ago, the prominent Stoic philosopher Seneca, drawing from Epicurean, Platonic, and Cynic philosophies, reminds us how simple but also how rare it is to truly live, far from unnecessary worries and false needs.