Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              eum pariter mens et corpus sopita quiescunt ;
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              nam licet aeternum per nos sie esse soporem,
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              nec desiderium nostri nos adficit ullum. </s>
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              et tamen haudquaquam nostros tune illa per artus
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              longe ab sensiferis primordia motibus errant,
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              cum correptus homo ex somno se colligit ipse. </s>
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              multo igitur mortem minus ad nos esse putandumst,
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              si minus esse potest quam quod nil esse videmus;
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              maior enim turbae disiectus materiai
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              consequitur leto nec quisquam expergitus exstat,
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              frigida quem semel est vitai pausa secuta.
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              <s id="s.000804">Denique si vocem rerum natura repente
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              mittat et hoc alicui nostrum sie increpet ipsa
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              'quid tibi tanto operest, mortalis, quod nimis aegris
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              luctibus indulges ?</s>
              <s id="s.000805"> quid mortem congemis ac fles?</s>
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              nam gratis anteacta fuit tibi vita priorque
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              et non omnia pertusum congesta quasi in vas
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              commoda perfluxere atque ingrata interiere:
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              cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis
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              aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem ?</s>
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              sin ea quae fructus cumque es periere profusa
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              vitaque in offensust, cur amplius addere quaeris,
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              rursum quod pereat male et ingratum occidat omne,
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              non potius vitae finem facis atque laboris ?</s>
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              nam tibi praeterea quod machiner inveniamque,
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              quod placeat, nil est: eadem sunt omnia semper.
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              si tibi non annis corpus iam marcet et artus
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              confecti languent, eadem tamen omnia restant,
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              omnia si pergas vivendo vincere saecla,
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              atque etiam potius, si numquam sis moriturus,'
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