Lucretius
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De rerum natura: Libri Sex
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1566
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Libera sponte sua cursus lustrare perennis
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Morigera ad fruges augendas, atque animantis:
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Neve aliqua divum volvi ratione putemus.</
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Nam, bene qui didicere deos securum agere aevum,
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Si tamen interea mirantur, qua ratione
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Quaeque geri possint, praesertim rebus in illis,
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Quae supra caput aethereis cernuntur in oris:
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Rursus in antiquas referuntur relligiones,
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Et dominos acris adsciscunt, omnia posse
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Quos miseri credunt; ignari, quid queat esse,
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Quid nequeat; finita potestas denique cuique
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Quanam sit ratione, utque alte terminus hereat.</
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Principio, maria, ac terras, caelumque tuere:
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Quorum naturam triplicem, tria corpora, Memmi,
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Tris species tam dissimilis, tria talia texta,
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Una dies dabit exitio: multosque per annos
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Sustentata ruet moles, & machina mundi.</
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Nec me animi fallit, quam res nova, miraque menti
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Accidat, exitium caeli, terraeque futurum;
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Et quam difficile id mihi sit pervincere dictis:
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Ut fit, ubi insolitam rem adportes auribus ante,
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Nec tamen hanc possis oculorum subdere visu,
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Nec iacere endo manus, via qua munita fidei
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Proxima fert humanum in pectus, templaque mentis.</
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Sed tamen effabor: dictis dabit ipsa fidem res
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Forsitan, & graviter terrarum motibus ortis
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Omnia conquassari in parvo tempore cernes:
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Quod procul a nobis flectat fortuna gubernans;
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Et ratio potius, quam res persuadeat ipsa
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Succidere horrisono posse omnia victa fragore.</
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