Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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 sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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