All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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