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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
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I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
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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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