There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LucretiusToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
LucretiusAnything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!
Lucretius