It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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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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