“As Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out. The only one who can keep you mindful of this is you.”

—  Sarah Bakewell , book How to Live

Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 37.

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