What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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 is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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