“Life flees and does not stop an hour.”

La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora.
Canzone 272, line 1
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death

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La vita fugge e non s'arresta un'ora.

CCLXXII, 1
Canzoniere
Variant: La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora.

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Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374

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