Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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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 cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of 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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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