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

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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 rationi atque alte terminus haerens;
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              quo magis errantes caeca ratione feruntur. </s>
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              quae nisi respuis ex animo longeque remittis
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              dis indigna putare alienaque pacis eorum,
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              delibata deum per te tibi numina sancta
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              saepe oberunt; non quo violari summa deum vis
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              possit, ut ex ira poenas petere inbibat acris,
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              sed quia tute tibi placida cum pace quietos
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              constitues magnos irarum volvere fluctus,
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              nec delubra deum placido cum pectore adibis,
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              nec de corpore quae sancto simulacra feruntur
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              in mentes hominum divinae nuntia formae,
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              suscipere haec animi tranquilla pace valebis. </s>
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              inde videre licet qualis iam vita sequatur. </s>
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              quam quidem ut a nobis ratio verissima longe
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              reiciat, quamquam sunt a me multa profecta,
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              multa tamen restant et sunt ornanda politis
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              versibus ; est ratio caeli
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              specie
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              sque tenenda,
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              sunt tempestates et fulmina clara canenda,
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              quid faciant et qua de causa cumque ferantur;
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              ne trepides caeli divisis partibus amens,
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              unde volans ignis pervenerit aut in utram se
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              verterit hine partim, quo pacto per loca saepta
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              insinuarit, et hinc dominatus ut extulerit se. </s>
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              tu mihi supremae praescribta ad candida calcis
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              currenti spatium praemonstra, callida musa
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              Calliope, requies hominum divomque voluptas,
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