All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses (Book 15, Lines 252-257).

Date / Period

c. 8 CE

Category

Philosophical

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