“Hardly any thing reverts to nothingness, but by separation all things return to the elements of matter”
haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla, sed omnes / discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.
Read the full text — and also the same idea at 1.237 and 1.262.
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