It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSIf 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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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