Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius
When your work speaks for itself, don?t interrupt.
work
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
earth heaven spirit temple
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
food man poison bitter
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
trouble joy troubles free sea great tribulation
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.. Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
start things matter return nothing seed elements
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
angels fly
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio
power universe divine celestial arguments evidence
Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
earth fear gods thing
The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life
life time living things hand generations short
nations life living space creatures things generations short
Love is a product of habit
habit love
Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death
birth nature death suffering thing
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
wind air
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
life
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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