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De rerum natura (56 BC)
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A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.
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A little river seems to him, who has never seen a larger river, a mighty stream; and so with other things—a tree, a man—anything appears greatest to him that never knew a greater.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Some races increase, others are reduced, and in a short while the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners relay the torch of life.
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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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Therefore 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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