What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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