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?
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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