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

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              naturas hominum varias moresque sequacis;
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              quorum ego nunc nequeo caecas exponere causas
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              nec reperire figurarum tot nomina quot sunt
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              principiis, unde haec oritur variantia rerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000664">illud in his rebus videor firmare potesse,
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              usque adeo naturarum vestigia linqui,
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              parvola quae nequeat, ratio depellere nobis,
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              ut nil inpediat dignam, dis degere vitam.
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              <s id="s.000665">Haec igitur natura tenetur corpore ab omni
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              ipsaque corporis est custos et causa salutis;
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              nam communibus inter se radicibus haerent
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              nec sine pernicie divelli posse videntur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000666">quod genus e thuris glaebis evellere odorem
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              haud facile est quin intereat natura quoque eius.</s>
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              <s id="s.000667">sic animi atque a-nimae naturam corpore toto
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              extrahere haut facile est quin omnia dissoluantur. </s>
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              inplexis ita principiis ab origine prima
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              inter se fiunt consorti praedita vita,
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              nec sibi quaeque sine alterius vi posse videtur
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              corporis atque animi seorsum sentire potestas,
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              sed communibus inter eas conflatur utrimque
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              motibus accensus nobis per viscera sensus.</s>
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              <s id="s.000669">praeterea corpus per se nec gignitur umquam
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              nec crescit neque post mortem durare videtur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000670">non enim, ut umor aquae dimittit saepe vaporem
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              qui datus est, neque ea causa convellitur ipse,
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              sed manet incolumis, non, inquam, sic animai
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              discidium possunt artus perferre relicti,
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              sed penitus pereunt convulsi conque putrescunt.</s>
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              <s id="s.000671">ex ineunte aevo sic corporis atque animai
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              mutua vitalis discunt contagia motus
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              maternis etiam membris alvoque reposta,
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              discidium
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              ut
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              nequeat fieri sine peste maloque;
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