Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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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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