§7.23.1Ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις ἐκ τῆς ὅλης οὐσίας ὡς κηροῦ νῦν μὲν ἱππάριον ἔπλασε, συγχέασα δὲ τοῦτο εἰς δενδρύφιον συνεχρήσατο τῇ ὕλῃ αὐτοῦ· εἶτα εἰς ἀνθρωπάριον· εἶτα εἰς ἄλλο τι· ἕκαστον δὲ τούτων πρὸς ὀλίγιστον ὑπέστη.
The nature of the whole, out of the substance of the whole, as if from wax, at one time fashions a little horse, and then melting this down, uses its material for a little tree, then for a little man, then for something else; and each of these has subsisted for only the shortest time.
δεινὸν δὲ οὐδὲν τὸ διαλυθῆναι τῷ κιβωτίῳ, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τὸ συμπαγῆναι ἀγαθόν.
And it is nothing terrible for the chest to be broken up, just as it was nothing good for it to be put together.