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

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              credere posse animum, victus fateare necessest
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              esse ea quae nullis iam praedita partibus extent
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              et minima constent natura. </s>
              <s id="s.000154">quae quoniam sunt,
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              illa quoque esse tibi solida atque aeterna fatendum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000155">denique si minimas in partis cuncta resolvi
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              cogere consuesset rerum natura creatrix,
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              iam nil ex illis eadem reparare valeret
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              propterea quia, quae nullis sunt partibus aucta,
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              non possunt ea quae debet genitalis habere
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              materies, varios conexus pondera plagas
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              concursus motus, per quae res quaeque geruntur.
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              <s id="s.000156">Quapropter qui materiem rerum esse putarunt
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              ignem atque ex igni summam consistere solo,
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              magno opere a vera lapsi ratione videntur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000157">Heraclitus init quorum dux proelia primus,
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              clarus
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              ob
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              obscuram linguam magis inter inanis
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              quamde gravis inter Graios qui vera requirunt.
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              omnia enim stolidi magis admirantur amantque,
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              inversis quae sub verbis latitantia cernunt,
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              veraque constituunt quae belle tangere possunt
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              auris et lepido quae sunt fucata sonore.
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              <s id="s.000158">Nam cur tam variae res possint esse requiro,
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              ex uno si sunt igni puroque creatae;
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              nil prodesset enim calidum denserier ignem
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              nec rarefieri, si partes ignis eandem
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              naturam quam totus habet super ignis haberent.</s>
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              <s id="s.000159">acrior ardor enim conductis partibus esset,
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              languidior porro disiectis
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              dis
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              que supatis:
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              amplius hoc fieri nil est quod posse rearis
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              talibus in causis, nedum variantia rerum
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              tanta queat densis rarisque ex ignibus esse.</s>
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              <s id="s.000160">id quoque, si faciant admixtum rebus inane,
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              denseri poterunt ignes rarique relinqui.</s>
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              <s id="s.000161">sed quia multa sibi cernunt contraria nasci
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