If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUSNo single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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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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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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