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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Lucretius

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

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