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

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              iucundo sensu cura semota metuque ?</s>
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              ergo corpoream ad naturam pauca videmus
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              esse opus omnino, quae demant cumque dolorem. </s>
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              delicias quoque uti multas substernere possint
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              gratius interdum, neque natura ipsa requirit,
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              si non aurea sunt iuvenum simulacra per aedes
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              lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris,
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              lumina nocturnis epulis ut suppeditentur,
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              nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet
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              nec citharae reboant laqueata aurataque tecta,
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              cum tamen inter se prostrati in gramine molli
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              propter aquae rivum sub ramis arboris altae
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              non magnis opibus iucunde corpora curant,
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              praesertim cum tempestas adridet et anni
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              tempora conspergunt viridantis floribus herbas. </s>
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              nec calidae citius decedunt corpore febres,
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              textilibus si in picturis ostroque rubenti
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              iacteris, quam si in plebeia veste cubandum est. </s>
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              quapropter quoniam nil nostro in corpore gazae
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              proficiunt neque nobilitas nec gloria regni,
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              quod superest, animo quoque nil prodesse putandum;
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              si non forte tuas legiones per loca campi
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              fervere cum videas belli simulacra cientis,
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