Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Lucretius144 quotes“Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.”
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LucretiusLucretius 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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LucretiusLucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LucretiusLucretius How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LucretiusLucretius True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LucretiusLucretius Only religion can lead to such evil.
LucretiusLucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LucretiusLucretius Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LucretiusLucretius By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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