Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC