The Pleasures of Life

Life is long enough if you use it

Echoes

Lubbock writes that “it is not so much the time that flies; as we that waste it”. He credits no one for this; Seneca is footnoted only for a line on lost hours.

1. c. 49 CE

   “We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it: life is long enough to carry out the most important projects”

   Seneca, On the Shortness of Life. Earliest we can find, about 1,840 years earlier.

2. 1887

   “Time is often said to fly; but it is not so much the time that flies; as we that waste it”