... 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.

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.