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121 " Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta "
― Lucretius
122 " Since therefore I see that the chiefest members and parts of the world are destroyed and begotten anew, I may be sure that for heaven and earth as well there has been a time of beginning and there will be a time of destruction. "
123 " yet a placeThere is upon some distant mountain sideWhence all doth seem to be at rest and lieAs but a glimmer on the plain below. "
― Lucretius , The Way Things Are
124 " Again see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn down with decay, and that holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature? "