The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.