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.
LUCRETIUSThus 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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