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01c. 150 AD

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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02c. 150 AD

All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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03c. 150 AD

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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04c. 150 AD

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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05c. 200 AD

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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06c. 200 AD

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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07c. 200 AD

Time is the image of eternity.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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08c. 200 AD

Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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09c. 200 AD

It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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10c. 200 AD

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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11c. 200 AD

In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase "Ipse dixit" was introduced into ordinary life.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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12c. 1524 AD

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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13c. 1524 AD

He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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14c. 1524 AD

Nothing is so dear and precious as time.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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15c. 1562 AD

He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

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16c. 1581 AD

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

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17c. 1581 AD

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

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18c. 1581 AD

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

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19c. 1581 AD

But all in good time.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

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20c. 1736 AD

The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.

Francis M. Voltaire / quote

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21c. 1736 AD

In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francis M. Voltaire / quote

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22In print by 1905 AD

They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

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23In print by 1905 AD

Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

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24In print by 1905 AD

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

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