“...There is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”

“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.”

“Matter's basic elements are solid,Completely so, and that they fly through timeInvincible, indestructible for ever.”

“Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.”

“Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.”

“Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, This change is at once the death of that which was before”

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.”