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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid

Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

Janet Morris

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

Pope Benedict XVI

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Ovid

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Horace

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

Virgil

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Hector Berlioz

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Seneca the Younger

Death devours all lovely things.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Thomas Carlyle

Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

Tacitus

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Saint Augustine

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Horace

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Horace

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