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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.

Lucretius

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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