The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSDeprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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All things obey fixed laws.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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Meantime, 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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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