Lucretius — Roman Poet

Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things... (wikipedia)

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.