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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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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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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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One Man's food is another Man's Poison
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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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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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.
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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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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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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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Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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