No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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