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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes about time

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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of..."
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining..."
Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends..."
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good..."
Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a..."
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Only time can heal what reason cannot."
Only time can heal what reason cannot. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Time discovers truth."
Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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