Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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