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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
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