Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSSo, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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