Lucretius Quote

Again, see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn out with decay, and that the holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature? In Great Books of the Western World (Volume 12)

On the Nature of Things - Book V, 306 (p. 65), Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1952