The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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