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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Remains
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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