Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Cogitur interdum flecti per membra, per artus;
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              Et proiecta refrenatur, retroque residit? </s>
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              Quare in seminibus quoque idem fateare necesse est,
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              Esse aliam praeter plagas, & pondera causam
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              Motibus; unde haec est nobis innata potestas:
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              De nihilo quoniam fieri nihil posse videmus.</s>
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              Pondus enim prohibet, ne plagis omnia fiant,
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              Externa quasi vi.</s>
              <s id="s.000352"> sed ne mens ipsa necessum
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              Intestinum habeat cunctis in rebus agendis;
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              Et devicta quasi hoc cogatur ferre, patique;
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              Id facit exiguum clinamen principiorum,
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              Nec regione loci certa, nec tempore certo.</s>
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              <s id="s.000353">Nec stipata magis fuit umquam materiai
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              Copia, nec porro maioribus intervallis:
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              Nam neque adaugescit quidquam, nec deperit inde.</s>
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              Quapropter quo nunc in motu principiorum
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              Corpora sunt, in eodem ante acta aetate fuere:
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              Et post hoc semper simili ratione ferentur.</s>
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              Et quae consuerint gigni, gignentur eadem
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              Condicione; & erunt, & crescent, in que valebunt,
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              Quantum cuique datum est per foedera naturai.</s>
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              Nec rerum summam commutare ulla potest vis:
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              Nam neque quo possit genus ullum materiai
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              Effugere ex omni, quidquam est: neque rursus, in omne
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              Unde coorta queat nova vis inrumpere, & omnem
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              Naturam rerum mutare, & vertere motus.</s>
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              <s id="s.000357">Illud in his rebus non est mirabile, quare
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              Omnia cum rerum primordia sint in motu;
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              Summa tamen summa videatur stare quiete,
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              Praeterquam, si quid proprio dat corpore motus.</s>
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              Omnis enim longe nostris ab sensibus infra
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              Primorum natura iacet.</s>
              <s id="s.000359"> quapropter, ubi ipsa
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