Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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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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