Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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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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’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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