Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Thus, 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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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