The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSMeantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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