The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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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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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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