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.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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