One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSAll things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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