For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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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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