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- Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
- Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Time eases all things.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus Rex
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Time cancels young pain.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aeolus
- Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Precepts
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
- Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Physics
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