Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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