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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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