Avenging death.
Fools!—for they have no far-reaching thoughts—who deem that what before was not comes into being, or that aught can perish and be utterly destroyed. For it cannot be that aught can arise from what in no way is, and it is impossible and unheard of that what is should perish; for it 5 will always be, wherever one may keep putting it. R. P. 165 a.
And in the All there is naught empty and naught too full.
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In the All there is naught empty. Whence, then, could aught come to increase it?
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A man who is wise in such matters would never surmise in his heart that as long as mortals live what they call their life, so long they are, and suffer good and ill; while before they were formed and after they have been dissolved they are just nothing at all. R. P. 165 a.