Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUSIt’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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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