Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.

Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
[Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es
Semine quando opus est rebus.]

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all
things return dissolved into their elements.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all
things return dissolved into their elements.
[Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes
Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]