“Time removes distress.”

—  Terence , Heauton Timorumenos

Act III, scene 1, line 12 (421).
Variant translations:
Time heal all wounds.
Time assuages sorrow.
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

Original

Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.

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