“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

IV, 43
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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