Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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