What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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