So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

All things obey fixed laws.