Topic

Time

“It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Soon you will have forgotten everything, and soon everyone will have forgotten you.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not live as though you had ten thousand years before you. While you live, while you can: be good.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Whoever does not have two thirds of his day for himself is a slave.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Human, All Too Human
“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, so they hurt for less time. Benefits should be given slowly, so they are savoured longer.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Victory is prepared before it is sought. Whoever begins to plan mid-fight has already lost.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Every day is a small life. Whoever throws it away throws away no small thing.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Parerga and Paralipomena
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“No one loses any life other than the one they live, nor lives any other than the one they lose.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“In calm prepare. In storm act.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the other's unreadiness.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Everything flows out and in. Everything has its tides. The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Life is long enough if you know how to use it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Time discovers the truth.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On Anger
“Do not waste the rest of your life thinking about other people.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Who cannot give account of three thousand years stays in the dark, unlearned, living day to day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · West-Eastern Divan
“The price of a thing is the amount of life you give for it.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden