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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8915 Plutarh AD 46?-AD 120 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8915
AUTHOR:Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120)
QUOTATION:I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Of Isis and Osiris.
 
Note 1.
I am the things that are, and those that are to be, and those that have been. No one ever lifted my skirts; the fruit which I bore was the sun.—Proclus: On Plato’s Timæus, p. 30 D. (Inscription in the temple of Neith at Sais, in Egypt.) [back]