On the Shortness of Life

Life is long if you know how to use it.

While we wait for life, life passes.

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.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.

The part of life we really live is small, for all the rest is not life, but merely time.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.