Lucretius (c. 99 – c. 55 BCE) from the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe)
as translated by Anthony M. Esolen
There’s more: Nature dissolves all things into
Their atoms; things can’t die back down to nothing.
…Never can things revert to nothingness!
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