One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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It’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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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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