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Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it as pleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since time knows not how to preserve our hopes, but, attentive to its own concerns, flies away.
Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it as pleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since time knows not how to preserve our hopes, but, attentive to its own concerns, flies away.
Approximate author period: c. 445 BC · classical
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- Euripides
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- Approximate author period: c. 445 BC · classical
author lifetime midpoint (-484–-406)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
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