Seneca the Younger Quotes About Time

• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

• Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Time Heals, Reason

  Agamemnon 130

• Whatever begins, also ends.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Ends, End Times

  "Seneca's Consolations". Book by Seneca the Younger, 40–45 AD..

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Promise, Nemo

• Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
  No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Wicked, Too Short

• The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Time, Past

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Past, Three

• Time discovers truth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Time, Truth

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Men, Long

• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Cities, Age

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Time

• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophical, Able

  "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

• Nothing is ours except time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Acceptance, Time Management

• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Modesty, Repeats

• Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Calendars, Given

• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Add, Another Day

• Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lasts, Moments

• The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Looks, Velocity

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Time, Men

• Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Remedy

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