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	Titus Lucretius Carus
	(99-55 BC) Old Proverbs,Wise Sayings; Collected & published by the Quotationary compiler for 6th grade class project, age 12 - Roman philosophical poet, disciple of Epicurus.

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(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

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