Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
Ovid on Birthday
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Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return.
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
Before he is dead and buried no one ought to be called happy.
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
While I am speaking the hour flies.
The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
Time is generally the best medicine.
Time, the devourer of all things.
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