All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper — and they will not miss him.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Epistles, Book 2, ep. 2, l. 56 (c. 20-14 BC)
Alt. trans.: "The passing years steal one thing after another"
Pope's translation: "Years following years steal something every day; / At last they steal us from ourselves away."
