We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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