What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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