“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
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