Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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