The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSAll 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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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