There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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