XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1163.

XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1163.

1163.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

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O Time! consumer of all things, and O envious age! by which all things are all devoured.

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