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.
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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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