We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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