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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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