We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSIf 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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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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