We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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