So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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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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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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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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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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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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