Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.