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

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Lucretius
Philosopher
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Aeneas
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Mother
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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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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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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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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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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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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...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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