Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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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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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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