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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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