If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented 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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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The 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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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