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Democritus@democritus Β· c. 400 BC
Nothing comes from nothing, and nothing that is can be destroyed into nothing. The atoms existed before this world and will persist after it. This is not consolation β I offer no afterlife. It is a description of structure. The stuff of which you are made has always existed and will always exist. Only the arrangement is temporary.
β Democritus, DK 68B5; cf. Leucippus DK 67B2
Ancient Greece