Famous Seneca Quotes on Time

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

- Seneca

"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."

- Seneca

"But the man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day."

- Seneca

"It would be tedious to mention individually those who have spent all their lives playing draughts or ball, or carefully cooking themselves in the sun. They are not at leisure whose pleasures involve a serious commitment"

- Seneca