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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
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.




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Faisons que tout notre temps soit pour nous : il ne nous appartiendra que si nous commençons à nous appartenir.

German
Arbeiten wir darauf hin, dass all unsere Zeit uns gehört. Das wird aber nicht der Fall sein, wenn wir nicht vorher unser Bestreben darauf richten, uns selbst zu gehören.




See also 

See also...



What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.




Quotes for: time


Quotes

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.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





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 for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





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.





Don't forget to love yourself.





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.











Quotes

Seneca also said...


A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.





The language of truth is simple.





If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.





Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.












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