Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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?
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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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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