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.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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