Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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