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Seneca quotes on time

4 verified English passages where Seneca’ s thought meets questions of time.

Seneca on time

Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) approaches time within Stoicism. He treats philosophy as therapy for destructive passions and urges daily preparation for mortality and loss. Systematically, the teaching links ethics, anger, mortality into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets time most directly—useful for searches such as “seneca quotes on time.”

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What did Seneca say about time?

The quotations below are the archive’s curated answer: English renderings selected for clarity and attribution, not a complete corpus.

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Related themes: Philosophy , Self , Knowledge , Freedom , Life , Wisdom .

  1. All else belongs to others; time alone is ours.
    Q0030
    Letters to Lucilius, Ep. 1.1–3
  2. Claim yourself for yourself.
    Q0033
    Letters to Lucilius, Ep. 1
  3. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
    Q0428
    On the Shortness of Life
  4. All things are alien to us; time alone is ours.