You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LucretiusLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LucretiusCertainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.
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