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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
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For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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