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Ovid on New Year

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Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.

In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return.

Time glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the days flee away with no restraining curb.

Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.

Time glides by with constant movement, not unlike a stream. For neither can a stream stay its course, nor can the fleeting hour.

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.

All things change, nothing perishes.

While I am speaking the hour flies.

The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.

Time is generally the best medicine.

Time, the devourer of all things.

Time that devours all things.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.