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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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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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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And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
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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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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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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
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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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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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