Seneca the Younger: Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In

Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age buil — Seneca the Younger

Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Seneca the Younger

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