Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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