That Which Is Not To The Purpose
Akira the Don, Seneca the Younger
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Continue to act thus my dear Lucilius Set yourself free for your own sake Gather and save your time Which till lately has been forced from you Or filched away or merely Slipped from your hands Make yourself believe the truth of my words That certain moments are torn from us Some are gently removed And that others glide beyond our reach The most disgraceful kind of loss Is due to carelessness Furthermore, if you will pay Close heed to the problem You will find 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 The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose What man can you show me who Places any value on his time Who reckons the worth of each day Who understands that he is dying daily? For we're mistaken when we Look forward to death The major portion passed already The years behind us are in death’s hands Therefore Do as you write me that you are doing: Hold every hour in your grasp Lay hold of today’s task And you will not need to depend So much upon tomorrow’s While we are postponing life speeds by Nothing, Lucilius, is ours except time We were entrusted by nature With the ownership of this single thing So fleeting and slippery anyone who Will can oust us from possession And the whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and Most useless things Which can easily be replaced To be charged in the reckoning After they've acquired them Never regard themselves as in debt When they have received some of That precious commodity time! And yet time Is the one loan Which even a grateful recipient cannot repay You may desire to know how I Who preach to you so freely, am practicing I confess frankly My expense account balances As you would expect from one Who is free handed but careful I cannot boast that I waste nothing But I can at least tell you what I am wasting And the cause and manner of the loss I can give you the reasons why I am a poor man my situation, however Is the same as that of many Who're reduced to slender means Through no fault of their own: Every one forgives them, but No one comes to their rescue What is the state of things, then? It’s this I do not regard a man as poor If the little which remains Is enough for him i advise you However to keep what's really yours And you cannot begin too early For, as our ancestors believed It’s too late to spare When you reach the dregs of the cask Of that which remains at the bottom The amount is slight and the quality is vile Farewell And the whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose The whole while we are doing that Which is not to the purpose
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