This terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power. Titus Lucretius Carus
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This quote is a reminder that the good that comes to us must be earned. And it is not easy. The first principle of nature is that nothing can come from nothing. That’s why we have to work hard to get the things we wish for.

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