Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
Ann Latukhovahas quoted9 months ago
life, if you know how to use it, is long.
Kevin Alanishas quoted2 days ago
It takes the whole of life to learn
Kevin Alanishas quoted2 days ago
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die
Kevin Alanishas quoted2 days ago
so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long.
Kevin Alanishas quoted2 days ago
ld age surprises them while their minds are still childish, and they come to it unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision for it;
Kevin Alanishas quoted2 days ago
Old age surprises them while their minds are still childish, and they come to it unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision for it;
Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy
Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply – though all the while that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be your last
Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
Aren’t you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants of your life, and to devote to wisdom only that time which cannot be spent on any business?