Time Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

— Seneca the Younger

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

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Whatever begins, also ends.

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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

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

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

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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

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

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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

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If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your…

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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a…

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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…

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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…

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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time,…

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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit…

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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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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think…

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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,…

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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…

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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.…

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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…

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“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while…

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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man…

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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…

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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere…

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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…

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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…

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

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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

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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…

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