De Rerum Natura
Translated by William Ellery Leonard · 1916
One of the sources behind Lucretius.
Death is nothing to us
Death, then, is nothing to us, nor concerns us one jot, since the nature of the mind is proved to be mortal. And as in time gone by we felt no ill, when from al…
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The mind untroubled
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 de…
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Nothing comes from nothing
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind, must needs be scattered not by the rays of the sun and the gleaming shafts of day, but by the outer view and the i…
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