What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSThose vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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