Nam certe non inter se stipata cohaeret materies, quoniam minui rem quamque videmus et quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo ex oculisque vetustatem subducere nostris, cum tamen incolumis videatur summa manere propterea quia, quae decedunt corpora cuique, unde abeunt minuunt, quo venere augmine donant, illa senescere, at haec contra florescere cogunt, nec remorantur ibi.
For certainly matter is not one packed and coherent mass, since we see each thing decreasing, and we perceive all things as it were ebbing through length of time, and age withdrawing them from our eyes; although nevertheless the sum is seen to remain unimpaired for this reason, that whenever bodies pass away from a thing, they diminish that from which they pass and increase that to which they have come, they compel the first to fade and the second on the contrary to bloom, yet do not linger there.
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