“Trees don't live in the sky, and clouds don't swimIn the salt seas, and fish don't leap in wheatfields,Blood isn't found in wood, nor sap in rocks. By fixed arrangement, all that live and growsSubmits to limit and restrictions.”

“You see that stones are worn away by time,Rocks rot, and twoers topple, even the shrinesAnd images of the gods grow very tired,Develop crack or wrinkles, their holy willsUnable to extend their fated term,To litigate against the Laws of Nature.And don't we see the monuments of menCollapse, as if to ask us, "Are not weAs frail as those whom we commemorate?"?Boulders come plunging down from the mountain heights,Poor weaklings with no power to resistThe thrust that says to them, Your time has come!But they would be rooted in steadfastnessHad they endured from time beyond all time,As far back as infinity. Look about you!Whatever it is that holds in its embraceAll earth, if it projects, as some men say,All things out of itself, and takes them backWhen they have perished, must itself consistOf mortal elements. The parts must addUp to the sum. Whatever gives awayMust lose in the procedure, and gain againWhenever it takes back.”

“Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking.”

“Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, This change is at once the death of that which was before”

“hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessestnon radii solis neque lucida tela dieidiscutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.(1.146ff.)Therefore it is necessary that neither the rays of the sun nor the shining spears of Day should shatter this terror and darkness of the mind, but the aspect and reason of nature...”

“...There is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”

“All things keep on in everlasting motion,Out of the infinite come the particles,Speeding above, below, in endless dance.”