The new philosopher

The philosophers' books, starting from Seneca to Jean de La Bruyère, about the brevity of our lives, to urge us to use time wisely and preserve it like we preserve our most precious possessions. For time, unlike material possessions, cannot be replaced, nor can we work hard to get it, or find it by chance, or inherit it, or borrow it, or steal it. Time simply passes, or, as Steve Miller described in one of his songs: (it leaks, leaks, leaks into the future).