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.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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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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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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