The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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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.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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