Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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More Lucretius Quotes
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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