These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSThere is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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