There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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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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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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 no place in nature for extinction.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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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.
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