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Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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Titus Lucretius Carus
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.
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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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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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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