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The Nature of Things
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"The Nature of Things" Quotes

A poetic exploration of the universe, encompassing atoms, the soul, and the nature of reality.

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Nothing in the body is made without a cause.

Lucretius

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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing.

Lucretius

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The sum of all things is eternity.

Lucretius

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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