Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUSThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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