The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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