Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSAll 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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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