One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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