Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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