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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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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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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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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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Some species 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 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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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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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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet 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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... 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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