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.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
More Lucretius Quotes
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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