The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In middle age he underwent a profound change and turned to Christian anarchism and non-violence, renouncing property and the rights to his own work. His writing on non-violence influenced Gandhi directly.
About this theme: Time
Time is the one theme here where every author writes from the same position — none of them had more of it than they had. Seneca devoted an essay to it, and his central claim is uncomfortable: we are not given a short life, we spend it in a way that makes it seem short.
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- Lost time is never found again.— Benjamin Franklin
- The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.— Chinese Proverb
- It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.— Seneca
- The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.— Cicero
- The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.— Nikola Tesla