Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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