Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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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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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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