Water Wears Away the Concrete

There is an expression: "Constant dropping wears away a stone". This is a line from a poem of ancient Greek poet Herila. The European culture has got it thanks to Roman poet Ovid. In his "Epistles from Pontus" it is said: "A drop hollows the stone". In the collection of expressions of ancient authors, that was compiled in the XV century by Byzantine scholar Michael Apostol, this expression is given in the following form: "A drop that is continuously falling, gouges a rock". In this form this expression occurs in ecclesiastical works of writers Gregory the Theologian and John of Damascus.

In this photo we can see the flow of water, which destroys the concrete beam with its weak stream, that symbolizes the meaning of the name of work and of ancient proverbs – even a small permanently impact, can lead to significant results.