Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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