Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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If 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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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