So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.