It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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