It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

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.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.