Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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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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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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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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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