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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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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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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum Adde Heliconiadum comites quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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