There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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