The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSThus 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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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