Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893

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              quid respondemus, nisi iustam intendere litem
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              naturam et veram verbis exponere causam ?</s>
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              grandior hic vero si iam seniorque queratur
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              atque obitum lamentetur miser amplius aequo,
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              non merito inclamet magis et voce inerepet acri ?</s>
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              'aufer abhinc lacrimas, balatro, et compesce querellas. </s>
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              omnia perfunctus vitai praemia marces.</s>
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              <s id="s.000812">sed quia semper aves quod abest, praesentia temnis,
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              inperfecta tibi elapsast ingrataque vita
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              et nec opinanti mors ad caput adstitit ante
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              quam satur ac plenus possis disce
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              de
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              re rerum.
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              nunc aliena tua tamen aetate omnia mitte
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              aequo animoque agedum magnus concede: necessest.'
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              iure, ut opinor, agat, iure increpet inciletque;
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              cedit enim rerum novitate extrusa vetustas
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              semper, et ex aliis aliud reparare necessest;
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              nec quisquam in barathrum nec Tartara deditur atra:
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              materies opus est ut crescant postera saecla;
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              quae tamen omnia te vita perfuncta sequentur;
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              nec minus ergo ante haec quam tu cecidere, cadentque.</s>
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              <s id="s.000813">sic alid ex alio numquam desistet oriri
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              vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu.</s>
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              <s id="s.000814">respice item quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas
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              temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante.</s>
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              <s id="s.000815">hoc igitur speculum nobis natura futuri
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              temporis exponit post mortem denique nostram.
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              numquid ibi horribile apparet, num triste videtur
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              quicquam, non omni somno securius exstat?</s>
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              <s id="s.000817">Atque ea nimirum quaecumque Acherunte profundo
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              prodita sunt esse, in vita sunt omnia nobis.</s>
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