The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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