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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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