What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSIf God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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