“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

Letter 1 of the 📕 Moral Letters to Lucilius, in Richard Gummere's translation. Seven words, and the comma does half the work.

I kept it on a Saturday when the launch was seventeen days away and I had told three people after the 18th. Everything was going to happen after the 18th. Then the 18th moved.

The full reading is in 📖 Seneca on time as the only possession; the rule I made out of it is ⚓ Time is the only thing I own. This is the short form, for the days when a rule is too long.