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Urbes ac monumenta saxo structa, si vitae1
nostrae compares, firma sunt ; si redigas ad condicionem naturae omnia destruentis et unde edidit
eodem revocantis, caduca sunt. Quid enim immortale manus mortales fecerunt ? Septem illa
miracula et si qua his multo mirabiliora sequentium
annorum extruxit ambitio aliquando solo aequata
visentur. Ita est : nihil perpetuum, pauca diuturna
sunt; aliud alio modo fragile est, rerum exitus
variantur, ceterum quicquid coepit et desinit.
1 urbes ac monumenta saxo structa, si vitae supplied by Gertz.
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