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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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  Hands, Space, Giving

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics

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• For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.

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  Real, Animal, Soul And Body

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, I. 113,

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

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  Men, Long, Atheism

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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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  Mean, Religion, Atheism

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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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  Men, Saws, Hocus Pocus

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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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  Grief, Sleep, Matter

  Titus Lucretius Carus (2010). “On the Nature of Things”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
  [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

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  Men, Understanding, Mind

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• Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

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  Believe, Hands, Heaven

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
  [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

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  Eternity, Eternal, Universe

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• All life is a struggle in the dark.

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  Struggle, Dark, Life Is

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• The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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  Newborn, Wailing, Infant

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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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  Light, Views, Littles

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

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  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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  Rain, Flower, Heart

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
  [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

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  Morrow, Fortune, Doubtful

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• Fear is the mother of all gods.

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  Mother, Atheist, Religion

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• These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Senses

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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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  Calm Mind, Care, Guests

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

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  Eye, Men, Animal

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.103

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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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  Progress, Limits, Things Change

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• What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

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  Truth, Knowledge, Giving

  "De Rerum Natura - on the Nature of Things". Book by Lucretius, I, 700,

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• For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

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  Doubt, Void, Wander

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17

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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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  Violence, Mesh, Recoil

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1866). “De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro: II”, p.144

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• The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

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  Eternity, Eternal

  "De Rerum Natura". III, 817,

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• If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

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  Men, Moon, Sky

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Alban Dewes Winspear (1956). “De Rerum Natura”, New York : Harbor Press

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