Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Rest, 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.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The mask is torn off, while the 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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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