How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSThe 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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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