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Time destroys the figments of the imagination, while confirming the judgments of nature.

— Cicero De Natura Deorum – On the Nature of the Gods (-45)

Opinionis enim commenta delet dies, naturae iudicia confirmat.

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Book II, section 2; translation by Francis Brooks

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For time destroys the fictions of error and opinion, while it confirms the determinations of nature and of truth.

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