Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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