Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former state.
Metamorphoses
Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former state.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses (Book 15, Lines 254-257).
c. 8 CE
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