The Latin phrase nullus dolor est quem not longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat (read: "there is no pain that the length of time does not diminish and pupils") is found in the Epistulae to Families by Marco Tullio Cicero (to Fam ., 4, 5).
The phrase resumes the topos of time as a consoler of evils, suggesting that human pains are erased or, at least, soothing.
This topos not only has other precedents in antiquity but has also continued in modern cultures. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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