You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LucretiusUnder 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.
Lucretius... 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.
LucretiusThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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