{"product_id":"sobre-a-brevidade-da-vida-talento","title":"On the Brevity of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book about the squandering of existence itself. Written two thousand years ago to be understood now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsually dated to the year 49, \u003ci\u003eOn the Shortness of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, by the Roman philosopher Seneca, explores the nature of time and the way it is wasted on thoughts and tasks that stray from ethical principles of true significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough written at the dawn of the Christian era, this treatise reinvents its own relevance and seems clearly applicable to today's world, lived at a frantic information-driven pace and shaped by the excessive, and often trivial, connectivity provided by social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Shortness of Life is far from fitting into modern self-help categories. It is, perhaps, quite the opposite: a harsh, bold, unsettling text, as if written by a friend who tells us what we do not want to hear, but needs to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo reach the end of our time and feel that it has been wasted—that is the great tragedy, according to Seneca.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Séneca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42098514821295,"sku":"IP217TI007","price":16.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/5701\/3299\/products\/9789898860392.jpg?v=1793911863","url":"https:\/\/particular.pt\/en\/products\/sobre-a-brevidade-da-vida-talento","provider":"Grupo Infinito Particular","version":"1.0","type":"link"}