You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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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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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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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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