To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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