Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUSThe 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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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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