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.
LucretiusOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
LucretiusIf anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
Lucretius