There can be no centre in infinity.
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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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