The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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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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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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