Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Time
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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
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Time is the herald of truth.
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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