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There can be no centre in infinity.

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
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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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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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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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