Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.”
“Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life.”
Vol.2, p. 4
Systematic Theology (1951–63)
Context: Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction
“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
Source: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope
“Art is long, life is short.”
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
