Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former state.
— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses (Book 15, Lines 254-257).

Date / Period

c. 8 CE

Category

Philosophical

Source

https://libraries.uc.edu/blogs/liblog/2018/02/06/our-favorite-ovid-quotes/

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Found in 1 providers: gemini

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