Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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