Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUSTis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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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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