Other than the misspelling, absolutely - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

On the Nature of Things:

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This terror, then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only Nature's aspect and her law, Which, teaching us, hath this exordium: Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.