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There is so much wrong with the world.

Lucretius

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  O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

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  Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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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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  Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

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  The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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  If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

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  The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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  How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

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  It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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  Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

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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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  All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

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  A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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  Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

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  To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

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  Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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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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  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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  Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.

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  Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

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  Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

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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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