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.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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