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

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

“...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.”

“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.”

“It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.”

“Trees don't live in the sky, and clouds don't swimIn the salt seas, and fish don't leap in wheatfields,Blood isn't found in wood, nor sap in rocks. By fixed arrangement, all that live and growsSubmits to limit and restrictions.”