It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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