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.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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 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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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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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