Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC
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Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThere is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798