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For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds
is instant death of that which was before.

To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.

Rather, there must be seeds, unseen, combined 895 in many ways and common to many things.

Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.

There can be no centre
in infinity.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Matter's basic elements are solid,
Completely so, and that they fly through time
Invincible, indestructible for ever.

If the world is the product of nothing but natural forces and natural law, divine intervention is impossible.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)

If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself.

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

He does not see that all things slowly weaken and fall to ruin,2 worn out by ages past.

And so, through the blank of void, all things must fall at equal speed, though not of equal weight.

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12

Truths kindle light for truths.

Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking.