Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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