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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
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For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
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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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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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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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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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