We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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