The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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