Ovid

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Ovid
Ovid

All things change; nothing perishes. I spent fifteen books proving it — love poems first, then gods, giants, and Caesar. Exile was just another metamorphosis.

Ovid
·8 AD·Rome, Italy

Nothing is permanent in all the world. All things are fluid; every image forms, wandering through change. Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river, for neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but as wave impels wave, and as each wave comes, the one before is both impelled by the next and impels the one ahead, so time both flees and follows and is always new.