Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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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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