The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSForbear 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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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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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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