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.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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What 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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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