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“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 4
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Context: Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts — suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure. Better have pain than paralysis! A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore!