Truth is the Daughter of time:
Aulus Gellius (Noctes xii,11) refers that:
If ... there were any who were neither so endowed by nature nor so well disciplined that they could easily keep themselves from sinning by their own will power, he thought that such men would all be more inclined to sin whenever they thought that their guilt could be concealed and when they had hope of impunity because of such concealment. But, said he, if men know that nothing at all can be hidden for very long, they will sin more reluctantly and more secretly. Therefore he said that one should have on his lips these verses of Sophocles, the wisest of poets:
See to it lest you try aught to conceal;
Time sees and hears all, and will all reveal.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
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