Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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