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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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For there is a VOID in things a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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