“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
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Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. **Source**: [Seneca the Younger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger) on Wikipedia.
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“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has los...”
“No one willingly turns his thought back to the past, unless all his acts have been submitted to the censorship of his conscience, which is never deceived; he who has ambitiously coveted, pro...”
“But those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled; when they have reached the end of it, the poor wretches perceive too...”
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude, the walls, and hates to observe it...”
“They are pleased to deceive themselves, as if they deceived Fate at the same time.”
“São econômicos na preservação de seu patrimônio, mas desperdiçam o tempo, a única coisa que justificaria a avareza.”
“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”
“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that swe...”
“Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.”
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”