Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.
LucretiusFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LucretiusPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius