To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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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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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 in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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