Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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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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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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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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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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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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