Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
More Lucretius Quotes
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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