Quote of Seneca - Let us see to it that...
Biography - Seneca:
Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
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Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Quotes about oneself:
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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