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all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live.
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.
no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is busied with many things
the mind, when its interests are divided, takes in nothing very deeply,
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing ...
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.
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.
Men trifle with the most precious thing in the world; but they are blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow and wastes to-day.
Life is divided into three periods — that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present time is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
Of all men they alone are at leisure who take time for philosophy, they alone really live; for they are not content to be good guardians of their own lifetime only.
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 late that for such a long while they have been busied in doing nothing.
