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Age of Enlightenment3 quotes
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon · 1789Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. — Samuel Johnson · 1755Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope · 1711Classical antiquity3 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusEverything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCIn a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life. — Lucretius · 50 BCOld Testament Era1 quote
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? — Jeremiah 13:23 · 570 BC