From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Deprived 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 can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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