The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSIf the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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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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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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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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