"On the Shortness of Life" Quotes
Seneca explores the importance of time and the value of living a meaningful life in this philosophical essay.
philosophy | 106 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Life is long if you know how to use it.
We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating sorrow.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
