Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSThus, 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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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