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Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

—Novalis, c. 1798
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