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Lucretius
Philosopher
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Poetry
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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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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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
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For men know not what the nature of the soul is whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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For there is a VOID in things a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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