... 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.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)