Seneca the Younger Quotes About Time
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Time discovers truth.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.
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Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
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Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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