"Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things."
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"Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything."
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"All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die."
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"How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!"
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"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."
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"Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed."
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"Time is the greatest innovator."
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"Time is the author of authors."
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"We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others."
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"The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours."
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"For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."
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"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
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"Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath."
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"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."
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"Time is the herald of truth."
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"Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality."
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"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."
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"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."
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"A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began."
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"I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of."
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