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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

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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