Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
Lucretius...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
Lucretius