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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
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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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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