It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes Laërtius
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
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Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, Is it then a time for you to be learning now? If it is not, he replied, when will it be?
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In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.
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Time is the image of eternity.
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A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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