In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of 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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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