To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSDo 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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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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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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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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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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