Just As The Sand-dunes, Heaped One Upon Another, Hide Each The First, So In Life The Former Deeds Are Quickly Hidden By Those That Follow After.

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Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first,
so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow
after.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, vii, 34

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