"Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.……" — Lucretius
"Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas"
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- No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
- For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
- In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
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- The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
- Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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