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“‘Why are you holding back?’ he says. ‘Why are you slow to action? If you don’t seize the day, it slips away.’ Even when you’ve seized it, it will still slip away; and so you must compete with time’s quickness in the speed with which you use it, and you must drink swiftly as if from a fast-moving torrent that will not always flow.”

—Seneca, On the Shortness of Life 9.2 (tr. Williams, 2014)