All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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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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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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