How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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