Vitruvius Quote

nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Introduction, Sec. 1 - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book VII

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.