We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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