Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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