Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Those 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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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