Tag: Time

Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 1.1

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“We don’t have too little time, but we do waste most of it. Life is long enough for the completion of the greatest affairs—it is apportioned to us generously, if it is wholly well managed.”

 

non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. satis longa uita et in maximarum rerum consummationem: large data est, si tota bene conlocaretur.

Euenus (Simplicius on Aristotle’s Physics 4.221a31)

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“Time is the wisest and most unteachable thing.”

 

σοφώτατόν τοι κἀμαθέστατον χρόνος

 

(Yes, we left the assertive τοι out of the translation.)

Simplicius, not so simple.

 

Euenus?

Pindar, Olympian 10. 7-8

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“What was to be the future attacked from afar and shamed my deep need.”

 

ἕκαθεν γὰρ ἐπελθὼν ὁ μέλλων χρόνος

ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε βαθὺ χρέος.

 

 

(“The time about to be” (ὁ μέλλων χρόνος) in past tense? Thank you, Pindar)