Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share