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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
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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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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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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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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.
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