We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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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 sum of all sums is eternity.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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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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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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