Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

Lucretius
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  2. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

  3. Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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