Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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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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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.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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