- Life, if you know how to use it, is long. On the Shortness of Life
- Most people, Paulinus, complain about the malevolence of nature: we are born for a brief span, and the years allotted to us rush by so swiftly and so suddenly that, except for a very few, life is over just when we are getting ready to live. On the Shortness of Life
- No one values time; they receive it as a gift. On the Shortness of Life
- We do not receive a short life, but we make it so; and we are not poor, but wasteful. On the Shortness of Life
- Life is divided into three periods: what was, what is, and what will be. Of these, the present is short, the future is uncertain, the past is certain. On the Shortness of Life