Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LucretiusLucretius Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LucretiusLucretius One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LucretiusLucretius I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LucretiusLucretius So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LucretiusLucretius Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LucretiusLucretius What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius All things obey fixed laws.
LucretiusLucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LucretiusLucretius Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LucretiusLucretius
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MenanderMenander Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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