There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSUnder what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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