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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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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 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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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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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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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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For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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