Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian painter, engineer and anatomist, author of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He left some seven thousand notebook pages written in mirror script, filled with machine designs, anatomical studies and observations on light and water. Very few of his projects were finished in his lifetime.
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