The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSWhen 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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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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