All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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