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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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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But centaurs never existed there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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