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Sophocles on Time

497 BC–405 BC Greece

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Time in its slow, illimitable course
Brings all to light and buries all again;
Strange things it brings to pass, the dreadest oath
Is broken and the stubbornest will is bent.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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