You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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