There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSWhat 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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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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No 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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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If 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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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