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.
LUCRETIUSRest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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