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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches for never is there any lack of a little.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Some species 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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...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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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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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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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