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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
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...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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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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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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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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Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
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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 greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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