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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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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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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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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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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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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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