Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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