It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Tags: waste, usefulness, time, purpose-of-life, life, employment

Other Quotes by "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"

If you wished to be loved, love.
Tags: loved, you, love
Life is warfare.
Tags: life
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Tags: himself, nothing, god, work
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Tags: because, dare, things, difficult
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tags: things, know, nothing, better
View More by "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"