We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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