Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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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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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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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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