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.
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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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